NUR623 Peri-operative Nursing Care
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Elective sugery - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Elective = Planned surgeries that patients
need, but don't have to be done right away. They are planned in advance.
- Same day surgery (SDS)
- Ambulatory/one-day surgery (ODS)
- Inpatient
Emergency surgery - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Surgeries done for urgent, possibly
life-threatening medical conditions
,What is ERAS: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery and its benefits? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔- Treatment program standardizing peri-operative care with
evidence-based, best practice
- Care pathways designed to reduce peri-operative stress, maintain
postoperative physiological function and accelerate recovery after surgery
- Associated with: ↓ length of surgical stay, ↓ post-op complications,
enhanced recovery process, improved pt experience, ↓ readmission rate
ERAS basic components (pre- intra- and post-operative) - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Preoperative
•Patient, family education & counselling
•Patient optimization
•Prehabilitation
•Carbohydrate loading & elimination of NPO
•Prevention of N/V (PONV)
•Pre-anesthetic meds
•Antimicrobial prophylaxis & skin prep
•Selective bowel prep
,Intraoperative
•Standard anesthetic protocol, opioid sparing, multimodal analgesia
•Fluid normovolemia, electrolyte therapy
•Normothermia
•Minimal invasive surgery
•Minimize drains/catheters
Postoperative
•Multimodal analgesia
•Thromboprophylaxis
•Fluid & electrolyte therapy
•Early urinary catheter removal
•Glycemic control
•Early oral nutrition & stimulation of gut motility
•Early mobilisation
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, •Defined discharge criteria & patient education
Advantages of Carbohydrate Loading & Elimination of NPO - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔↓ insulin resistance
↓ preoperative thirst, hunger & anxiety
Better maintain lean body mass & muscle strength
Less postoperative losses of nitrogen & protein
Accelerate recovery
↓ length of stay
↓ myocardial injury
Advantages of Early Oral Nutrition & Stimulation of Gut Motility - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Avoid starvation response
↓ risk of infection
Not associated with ↑ risk of anastomotic dehiscence (colorectal
population)
Helps to prevent ileus
2025/2026 Exam Questions and Verified
Answers | Already Graded A+
Elective sugery - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Elective = Planned surgeries that patients
need, but don't have to be done right away. They are planned in advance.
- Same day surgery (SDS)
- Ambulatory/one-day surgery (ODS)
- Inpatient
Emergency surgery - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Surgeries done for urgent, possibly
life-threatening medical conditions
,What is ERAS: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery and its benefits? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔- Treatment program standardizing peri-operative care with
evidence-based, best practice
- Care pathways designed to reduce peri-operative stress, maintain
postoperative physiological function and accelerate recovery after surgery
- Associated with: ↓ length of surgical stay, ↓ post-op complications,
enhanced recovery process, improved pt experience, ↓ readmission rate
ERAS basic components (pre- intra- and post-operative) - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Preoperative
•Patient, family education & counselling
•Patient optimization
•Prehabilitation
•Carbohydrate loading & elimination of NPO
•Prevention of N/V (PONV)
•Pre-anesthetic meds
•Antimicrobial prophylaxis & skin prep
•Selective bowel prep
,Intraoperative
•Standard anesthetic protocol, opioid sparing, multimodal analgesia
•Fluid normovolemia, electrolyte therapy
•Normothermia
•Minimal invasive surgery
•Minimize drains/catheters
Postoperative
•Multimodal analgesia
•Thromboprophylaxis
•Fluid & electrolyte therapy
•Early urinary catheter removal
•Glycemic control
•Early oral nutrition & stimulation of gut motility
•Early mobilisation
COPYRIGHT©NINJANERD 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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, •Defined discharge criteria & patient education
Advantages of Carbohydrate Loading & Elimination of NPO - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔↓ insulin resistance
↓ preoperative thirst, hunger & anxiety
Better maintain lean body mass & muscle strength
Less postoperative losses of nitrogen & protein
Accelerate recovery
↓ length of stay
↓ myocardial injury
Advantages of Early Oral Nutrition & Stimulation of Gut Motility - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Avoid starvation response
↓ risk of infection
Not associated with ↑ risk of anastomotic dehiscence (colorectal
population)
Helps to prevent ileus
