30-Day Mortality After Anesthesia and Surgery

Features| May 2024 30-Day Mortality After Anesthesia and Surgery Steven L. Shafer, MD, FASA Steven L. Shafer, MD, FASA Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar ASA Monitor May 2024, Vol. 88, 14. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0001016804.09740.19 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures 30-Day Mortality After Anesthesia and Surgery. ASA Monitor 2024; 88:14 doi: https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0001016804.09740.19 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll PublicationsASA Monitor Search Advanced Search Topics: mortality, surgical procedures, operative "Carpe diem." –Daniel Sessler, MD Okay, Dan Sessler isn't the first person to say "carpe diem" ("seize the day"). Evidently that honor goes to Horatius, who said that in a poem published in 13 B.C. (asamonitor.pub/4ajj9Vf). However, Dr. Sessler has repeatedly urged our profession to rise to the challenge of reducing patient mortality within the first 30 days after surgery, often with the exhortation "Carpe diem!" (e.g., his 2016 Severinghaus Lecture "Lost in Translation," his 2021 FAER-Helrich Lecture "Reversing Postoperative Mortality," and his 2022 editorial in the British Journal of Anaesthesia "Anaesthesia's legacy, carpe diem" (Br J Anaesth 2022;128:413-5). Rather than seizing the day, I'm seizing the May issue of the ASA Monitor to advocate that our profession devote substantial time, intellectual energy, research, and clinical attention to reducing 30-day mortality after surgery. This is a big deal. As noted by... You do not currently have access to this content.