Special Issue Title: Perioperative Care in Obstetrics and Gynecology

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· Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2021

Guest Editor

Dr. Tugba Kinay

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Interests: Urogynecology; General Gynecology; Laparoscopic surgery

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Hysterectomy is one of the most common surgeries in the world and perioperative care takes an important place in the clinical practice of a gynecologist. Rising cesarean delivery rates over the years has increased the significance of perioperative care in obstetrics too. The surgical stress induces the catabolic state and leads to some alterations in normal physiology. Increased cardiac demand, relative tissue hypoxia, increased insulin resistance, impaired coagulation profile, and altered pulmonary and gastrointestinal function are the changes in the intraoperative and the postoperative period. The goal of perioperative care is maintaining normal physiology in the postoperative period and optimizing patient outcomes. Preoperative management planning and risk assessment, patient counseling and education, bowel preparation, minimizing infection risk, pain management, prevention intraoperative hypothermia, early mobilization, thromboprophylaxis, nutrition and fluid balance are the components of perioperative care. Many of previous traditional perioperative interventions such as bowel preparation, cessation of oral intake after midnight, liberal use of narcotics and patient-controlled analgesia, prolonged bowel and bad rest, the use of nasogastric tubes and drains, gradual reintroduction of feeding are not evidence-based. Therefore, Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) programs including interventions that are data supported with the goal of optimizing patient outcomes began in the 1990s. The majority of data pertaining to outcomes with ERAS are derived from colorectal surgery. Nowadays this program takes place across a wide range of surgical specialties including gynecologic surgery. While researches on this subject continue all over the world, more data are needed reporting preoperative and postoperative interventions with the goal of shorter length of hospital stay, decreased need of analgesia, more rapid return of bowel function, decreased complication and readmission rates, increased patient satisfaction, cost reduction, and to standardize perioperative care.

The aim of this special issue titled “Perioperative Care in Obstetrics and Gynecology” is to create a collection of manuscripts providing new evidence and comprehensive reviews presenting the most recent available evidence in the field of perioperative care in obstetrics and gynecology practice.

Dr Tugba KINAY, M.D.

Obstetrician-Gynecologist

Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at https://ceog.imrpress.org by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Clinical and Experimental Obstetrics & Gynecology is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by IMR Press.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is $1250. We normally offer a discount about 30% (APC: $850) to all contributors invited by the Editor-in-Chief, Guest Editor (GE) and Editorial board member. Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English.

Cesarean section; enhanced recovery; gynecology; obstetrics; perioperative care; surgery

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Planned Paper

Title: The comparison of feromaternal outcomes between emergency and elective cesarean section in gestational diabetes mellitus pregnancies
Author: Özge YÜCEL ÇELIK

Title: Does staying in cesarean intensive care unit for 8 hours postoperatively reduce complications?
Author: Seval Yılmaz Ergani