Pre-surgical assessment and optimisation
All surgical procedures and anaesthetic interventions carry an element of risk. Your overall health status, underlying medical conditions and your general physical fitness significantly influence the chances of you achieving a successful outcome and minimising the...
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Getting prepared for surgery and anaesthesia – Getting it right first time, every time
Dr Steven Cook - Anaesthetist. As an anaesthetist I am the specialist doctor who manages your medical conditions to ensure you have a safe anaesthetic and post-surgery recovery. I liaise with your surgeon and other medical practitioners to ensure you are fit for your...
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Body Composition Analysis during weight loss
When people engage a health professional to help them improve their body composition the term “weight loss” will be most commonly used. Often an individual will be very focused on seeing the scales go down at a certain rate until they achieve a certain weight. If the...
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Understanding referred and radicular pain
The location of your pain often provides useful a useful set of clues to understanding your underlying diagnosis, but there are sometimes traps that need consideration. If you burn yourself, it's pretty obvious what you've done. You can easily localise the site of...
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Resting Metabolic Rate – What is RMR and how is it calculated ?
Determining how much food an individual needs in order to achieve weight loss, weight stability or weight gain goals is a complex and often inaccurate area of science. It is also an area of science that is very regularly and often heatedly debated. As a result there...
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Obesity and hip replacement surgery – Evidence from the Australian National Joint Replacement Registry
How does obesity impact upon the longevity and revision rates for hip joint replacements?. Learn how data obtained from the 2019 Australian National Joint Replacement Registry is being used to guide treatment recommendations for people with osteoarthritis.
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Reversible risk factors in surgery – Why are they important ?
How do surgeons assess risk ? Why are some health factors considered more important than others when preparing for surgery ? How can a patient influence the results of a surgical procedure ?
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