Reducing Mortality in the Perioperative Period

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Landoni, Giovanni (Editor), Ruggeri, Laura (Editor), Zangrillo, Alberto (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2017.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Anesthesiology.; Critical care medicine.; Internal medicine.; Surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.; Internal Medicine.

This second edition presents the first update on a consensus process during which all evidence from the literature with a survival benefit in the perioperative period was gathered, and in which 500 physicians from 61 countries worked to confirm the findings. Perioperative morbidity and mortality cur...

Table of Contents:

• The Risks and Benefits of the Consensus Process
• The Process of Consensus Building
• Noninvasive Ventilation to Reduce Perioperative Mortality
• Role of Inhalational Anesthetic Agents in Reducing Perioperative Mortality
• Can Neuraxial Anesthesia Reduce Perioperative Mortality
• Role of Perioperative Hemodynamic Optimization in Reducing Perioperative Mortality
• Levosimendan to Reduce Perioperative Mortality
• Perioperative b-Blocker Therapy and Survival
• Leukocyte Depletion of Transfused Blood to Reduce Perioperative Mortality
• Reducing Perioperative Mortality with Intra-Aortic Balloon Counterpulsation (IABP)
• Selective Decontamination of the Digestive Tract
• Role of Insulin in Reducing Mortality in the Perioperative Period
• Aprotinin: Pharmacological Benefits and Safety Concerns
• Consensus Conference on Perioperative Mortality: An Update
• Liberal Transfusion Strategy in the Perioperative Period
• Remote ischaemic preconditioning
• Statins
• Tranexamic acid
• Proven mortality reduction unconfirmed in most recent works. methodological problem.