Open AccessFrom Cuthbertson to Fast-Track Surgery: 70 Years of Progress in Reducing Stress in Surgical Patients
Author(s) -
Douglas W. Wilmore
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
annals of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.153
H-Index - 309
eISSN - 1528-1140
pISSN - 0003-4932
DOI - 10.1097/00000658-200211000-00015
Subject(s) - medicine , surgical stress , fight or flight response , reduction (mathematics) , medline , surgery , intensive care medicine , surgical procedures , biochemistry , chemistry , geometry , mathematics , political science , law , gene
To evaluate the evolution of knowledge concerning the stress response in surgical patients and to determine the therapeutic benefit of stress reduction therapy.