Journal of the Korean Medical Association

| Opinion | December 10, 2021

Global climate change and the role of anesthesiologist

Jae Hwan Kim

J Korean Med Assoc. 2021;64(12):794-799.

Background: Environmental issues and health problems related to global climate change are becoming increasingly serious. An effective eco-friendly strategy is required to reduce medical waste and greenhouse gas emissions caused...

Enhanced Recovery after Surgery (ERAS) | Focused Issue of This Month | December 10, 2021

Background for the introduction of enhanced recovery after surgery and patient outcomes

Do Joong Park

J Korean Med Assoc. 2021;64(12):801-805.

Background: To facilitate early postoperative recovery of surgical patients, various efforts have been made to develop effective treatment methods since 1990; moreover, these efforts have not been limited to surgical...

Enhanced Recovery after Surgery (ERAS) | Focused Issue of This Month | December 10, 2021

Enhanced recovery after surgery: operation-related factors

Dae Wook Hwang

J Korean Med Assoc. 2021;64(12):806-812.

Background: The enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) program, which has been recently introduced in the field of perioperative care, represents a multimodal strategy to attenuate the loss, and improve the...

Enhanced Recovery after Surgery (ERAS) | Focused Issue of This Month | December 10, 2021

Enhanced recovery after surgery: anesthesia-related components

Ah-Reum Cho

J Korean Med Assoc. 2021;64(12):813-819.

Background: Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) is a multidisciplinary and multimodal evidence-based approach aimed at improving the recovery of surgical patients. Successful implementation of ERAS protocols requires proper perioperative communication...

Enhanced Recovery after Surgery (ERAS) | Focused Issue of This Month | December 10, 2021

Enhanced recovery after surgery: importance of compliance audits

Jung Hoon Bae

J Korean Med Assoc. 2021;64(12):820-825.

Background: The enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocol is associated with improved clinical outcomes. However, implementation of ERAS in clinical practice is difficult because it requires a multidisciplinary approach and...

Enhanced Recovery after Surgery (ERAS) | Focused Issue of This Month | December 10, 2021

Perception and implementation status of enhanced recovery after surgery

Eun Young Kim

J Korean Med Assoc. 2021;64(12):826-832.

Background: The enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) program that is being implemented in Korea is difficult to investigate because it is not a standardized protocol with a unified content, and...

| Continuing Education Column | December 10, 2021

Vaginal health in women and the possibility of predicting preterm birth through microbiome analysis

Young Min Hur, Mi Na Kang, Young Ju Kim

J Korean Med Assoc. 2021;64(12):833-840.

Background: With the recent development of next-generation sequencing technology, the microbiome in the body is being revealed in detail. It is also possible to describe the normal vaginal microenvironment and,...

| Pharmacotherapeutics | December 10, 2021

Comprehensive approach for the treatment of medication-overuse headache

Hong-Kyun Park, Soo-Jin Cho

J Korean Med Assoc. 2021;64(12):843-851.

Background: Medication-overuse headache (MOH) is defined by the International Classification of Headache Disorders as a headache in patients with a pre-existing primary headache disorder that occurs on 15 or more...

| Special Contribution | December 10, 2021

Physicians’ perception toward using telephone consultations during the COVID-19 pandemic in Korea

Sun Mi Lim, Sungin Ji, Jin Suk Kim

J Korean Med Assoc. 2021;64(12):852-863.

Background: As the world faced a pandemic caused by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in 2019, telemedicine quickly spread and was widely adopted. This was the first instance where telephone...

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Vaginal health in women and the possibility of predicting preterm birth through microbiome analysis Young Min Hur, Mi Na Kang, Young Ju Kim J Korean Med Assoc. 2021;64(12):833-840. Continuing Education Column December 10, 2021 Full text PubReader ePub PDF Self-study	Comprehensive approach for the treatment of medication-overuse headache Hong-Kyun Park, Soo-Jin Cho J Korean Med Assoc. 2021;64(12):843-851. Pharmacotherapeutics December 10, 2021 Full text PubReader ePub PDF
Physicians’ perception toward using telephone consultations during the COVID-19 pandemic in Korea Sun Mi Lim, Sungin Ji, Jin Suk Kim J Korean Med Assoc. 2021;64(12):852-863. Special Contribution December 10, 2021 Full text PubReader ePub PDF