Centre for Perioperative Care: What is perioperative care?

Summary

Perioperative care is the Integrated care across the full patient pathway before, during and after surgery. Perioperative care, also referred to as perioperative medicine, is the practice of patient-centered, multidisciplinary, and integrated medical care of patients from the moment of contemplation of surgery until full recovery.

The Centre for Perioperative Care has produced a video on what good perioperative care looks like and a number or resources and advice on the perioperative journey.