Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Maximize Recovery: 7 Years of Advanced Techniques

30 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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Robert Whitfield MD (speaker) summarizes seven years of experience improving patient recovery after surgery. In this segment he emphasizes altering diets—specifically increasing protein intake before surgery—to achieve positive nitrogen balance, speed transition from stress-response to healing, decrease downtime, and improve recovery efficiency. The talk appears to cover practical perioperative interventions derived from multi-year clinical practice.

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Six years, going on the seventh year.

Increase protein in the diet preoperatively to improve nitrogen balance.

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I've done this for six years, going on our seventh year now. And it's been quite a process to determine which things can help advance recovery. And we're always looking for more and more ways to, you know, decrease downtime, improve our efficiency and recovery. So we'll alter diets, increase protein in the diet even before surgery. So that really putting you in the best sense of what we call nitrogen balance. But that will help you go from the stress responsive surgery into a healing phase, and that will help you.