BookKok-Yang Tan, editor.
Summary: This book discusses in depth the transdisciplinary integration of different components of care in colorectal surgery. Pertinent background information on the complexities of current management in colorectal surgery is first provided, followed by discussion of the role of design thinking in care integration. Subsequent chapters focus on a range of issues associated with surgical and perioperative care in patients undergoing colorectal surgery, with emphasis on how the multiple facets of care can be integrated through a transdisciplinary approach. Each chapter provides helpful take-home messages in bullet point form and numerous informative figures and tables are also included. The authors are surgeons, physicians, anesthetists, oncologists, nurses, and allied health professionals with extensive experience in the field.
Contents:
Complexity of Current Healthcare and Transdisciplinary Care
Design Thinking in Care Integration
Integrative Care for Elderly Patients
Integrative Perioperative Nutrition
Transdisciplinary Nursing
Enhanced Recovery
Integrative Pharmacology
Transdisciplinary Prehabilitation and Rehabilitation
Transdisciplinary Cancer Management
Marrying Endoscopic and Laparoscopic Treatment for Colorectal Cancer
Multimodal Approach to Familial Colorectal Cancer
Transdisciplinary Incontinence Management
Transdisciplinary Constipation Management
Innovations in Perianal Care and Surgery
Transdisciplinary Stoma Care
Healing and Psychosocial Issues.