The method of express rehabilitation after operations has been developed
Last reviewed: 17.10.2021
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One of the most important components of modern treatment was the so-called accelerated rehabilitation, that is, the restoration of the usual rhythm of life after surgery as quickly as possible.
A patient who has undergone a severe operation may not stay in hospital for a long time. If for decades the surgical operation represented a long process of being in the hospital: a few weeks before the operation and as much after, for the rehabilitation of the body, now everything is much easier.
Henceforth "in fashion" accelerated rehabilitation. It is worth noting that many experts do not find this method optimal for restoring the body after surgery, but fans of this system also have a lot of them.
It can be safely said that the new approach to treatment and care of patients has made a real revolution in medical practice. And Danish professor Henrik Kehlet, who developed the system in 1997, "turned" the presentation of doctors. In his view, the traditional methods that make patients hunger before and after the operation can not provide the person with the energy and strength necessary for recovery.
Accelerated rehabilitation is the intensive feeding of the patient with high-calorie foods and drinks immediately before the operation and right after it, as soon as the patient can move a little.
Returning to the opponents of accelerated rehabilitation. Statistics show that the level of postoperative complications due to the use of this system significantly decreased, and the duration of the patient's stay in the hospital was reduced by 50%.
The developers of the method based on the fact that with prolonged inactivity of the patient, day and night lying on the hospital bed, muscle mass is lost and gaining excess weight. According to their theory, the faster a person is on his feet, the more stable his body reacts to all sorts of viruses, infections and complications.
Some British hospitals have been practicing this method of rapid recovery for about three years.
"Of course, you do not need to regard this method as an instrument to quickly get rid of patients," says UK chief oncologist Professor Mike Richards. - Patients who undergo accelerated rehabilitation are as healthy as those who have lain in the hospital for a full term and are discharged later. Just restorative processes in the body in these patients occur twice as fast, and the level of repeated hospitalizations does not increase. Especially the patients themselves are delighted with the results. Can a person prefer a hospital ward to a quick recovery? ".