Surgery is aimed at improving a patient's health. However, surgery is plagued with a risk of negative consequences, such as perioperative complications and prolonged hospitalization. Also, achieving preoperative levels of physical functionality may be delayed. Above all, the "waiting" period before the …

Surgery aims to improve a patient’s medical condition. However, surgery is a major life event with the risk of negative consequences, like peri- and postoperative complications, prolonged hospitalization and delayed recovery of physical functioning. One of the major common side effects, functional …

In maart 2015 heeft het Viecuri Medisch Centrum (VMC) een nieuw zorgpad geïmplementeerd op basis van de KNGF adviesrichtlijn: ‘BiBo bij totale heup- en/of knieoperaties’. Het betreft de zorg voor patiënten die een electieve totale heup- en/of knieoperatie ondergaan in het VMC te Venlo en Venray. Het …

Dit onderzoek is gericht op de preoperatieve status en het postoperatief klinisch herstel bij patiënten die een totale heup- of knie operatie ondergaan binnen het Maastricht Universitair Medisch Centrum (MUMC+). Het doel van deze studie is om aan de hand van het BiBo scrreningsmodel afkomstig uit uit …

Frail elderly patients undergoing major surgery experience a decrease of physical capacity due to their hospital stay and surgery. This affects the risk of postoperative complications and their performance of activities, independence and participation.The Better in, Better out™ (BiBo™) strategy was developed …

In this thesis the workings of a time-resolved setup are treated as well as the underlying physics. The setup is based on optical gating, which gives control over very short moments in time to let light pass through a gate. As this process is stable, light can be studied in very short and low intensities. …