MS Generic name Commercial products 0.7 Hetastarch Hespan®, Plasmasteril®, Hextend® 0.6 Hexastarch Elohes® 0.5 Pentastarch HAES-Steril®, Pentaspan®, Hemohes® 0.4 Tetrastarch Voluven®, Venofundin®, Tetraspan® There has been considerable criticism of HES…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016Karen Stuart-Smith (ed.)Perioperative Medicine – Current Controversies10.1007/978-3-319-28821-5_14 14. Can Perioperative Interventions During Cancer Surgery Affect Recurrence or Metastasis? Dalia Abdelrahman1, 2 and Donal J. Buggy1, 2 (1) Department of Anaesthesia, Mater University…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016Karen Stuart-Smith (ed.)Perioperative Medicine – Current Controversies10.1007/978-3-319-28821-5_11 11. Hemostatic Resuscitation for Perioperative Bleeding Philip C. Spinella1, 2 , Heather F. Pidcoke2 and Andrew P. Cap2 (1) Division of Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, Washington University in…
These authors also developed a multifactorial risk factor index for predicting postoperative respiratory failure. Postoperative respiratory failure occurred in <0.01 % of low -risk patients (who had a combined risk…
Patients n Diagnostic criteria Prevalence (%) Shi et al. [3] Pancreatic surgery 65 Fasting blood glucose ≥126 mg/dl (7 mmol/l) Or Random blood glucose ≥200 mg/dl (11.1 mmol/l) 63…
Type of oral antidiabetic and non-insulin injectable therapy Day before surgery Day of surgery Patient for AM surgery Patient for PM surgery Acarbose No dose change Omit morning dose Give…
2009 ACCF/AHA guideline recommendations 2009 ESC/ESA guideline recommendations Class I Beta blockers should be continued in patients undergoing surgery who are receiving beta-blockers for treatment of conditions with ACCF/AHA Class…
Fig. 5.1 Recovery as a continuous variable. X = individual patient change score, which is a measure of individual patient recovery as a continuous variable derived from summation of multiple domains Defining…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016Karen Stuart-Smith (ed.)Perioperative Medicine – Current Controversies10.1007/978-3-319-28821-5_1 1. Perioperative Medicine: Defining the Anesthesiologist’s Role in Shaping Perioperative Outcomes Ottokar Stundner1 and Stavros G. Memtsoudis2 (1) Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine and Intensive…
