The ISGPS DGE definition is feasible and applicable in patients with an uneventful postoperative course. Major postoperative complications and ICU treatment, however, might limit its usefulness. The identified risk factors for DGE are not amenable to perioperative improvement.

Solitary metastases from gastric cancer should be treated surgically and confer a better prognosis. Surgical resection should provide microscopically negative margins (R0). A new prognostic factor, the presence of a pseudocapsule, may be associated with improved prognosis.

Liver resections are demanding operations which can have life threatening complications although they are performed by experienced liver surgeons. The parameter “Blood Loss” has a central role in liver surgery, and different strategies to minimize it are a key to improve results. Moreover, recently, new technologies are applied in the field of liver surgery, having one goal: safer and easier liver operations. The aim of this paper is to review the different principal solutions to the problem of blood loss in hepatic surgery, focusing on technical aspects of new devices.

The timing of cholecystectomy for AC does not seem to affect conversion rate and postoperative morbidity. Therefore the 72-h period should not be considered a strict limit to perform LC, provided that the operation is carried out during the initial hospital admission.