Adnkronos (Adnkronos) – "Perioperative medicine plays a fundamental role in reducing complications and developing care pathways consistent with the pathology and needs of each individual patient. During the conference, we will analyze various clinical pathways and patient management strategies. Among these, we will also address 'patient blood management,' an approach aimed at optimizing the management of the patient's blood and reducing, where possible, the need for transfusions and related complications.
"We are also exploring other pathways dedicated to vulnerable patients, with the aim of concretely analyzing strategies for preventing and treating complications. The aim is to provide participants with tools and knowledge applicable to daily clinical practice, so that they can take away effective strategies to improve the safety and quality of care," said Edoardo De Robertis, head of the Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine cultural section at Siaarti, today in Milan at Icare 2026, the 80th national congress of the Italian Society of Anesthesia, Analgesia, Resuscitation, and Intensive Care, running until October 24.
"There's a lot of work underway, for example, on patient preparation through 'prehabilitation,' a surgical preparation program aimed at improving physical and biological conditions before surgery," explains De Robertis. "Several studies already demonstrate its usefulness, when time and clinical conditions allow. This approach may also be important for cancer patients, who, in certain situations, may benefit from a preparation and rehabilitation program to better cope with surgery."
During surgery, "technology offers us increasingly advanced tools," the expert emphasizes. "We have more precise monitoring, which provides information on the patient's tolerance to anesthesia and helps reduce the risk of possible medium-term adverse effects. Hemodynamic monitoring has also become more accurate and allows us to continuously assess the patient's condition, adapting treatment to their needs. Furthermore, we have drugs with increasingly targeted action profiles, allowing us to personalize anesthesia and minimize its impact on various organs as much as possible. The goal is to develop an anesthetic strategy tailored to the individual's characteristics. Postoperative complications continue to exist and remain a critical issue in various care pathways. However, proper preoperative and intraoperative management, coupled with careful postoperative surveillance, can help reduce their incidence."
Technological advances "are significant, but there is still much to be done," De Robertis emphasizes. "A fundamental component is organizing coherent and personalized care pathways, based on collaboration between different professional fields. As anesthesiologists and resuscitators, we are perioperative medicine physicians and must work closely with our surgical colleagues and other professionals involved in the patient's journey, from radiology to clinical nutrition. Our role is particularly evident in intensive care, where managing critically ill patients requires specific skills. But equally important," he concludes, "is collaboration in the surgical departments, where we work alongside our colleagues to care for patients in the postoperative period and promote their recovery."
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