Intraoperative Hypotension and Complications

“The importance of blood pressure control cannot be overemphasized. Even at levels that are usually well tolerated, harm can be done. Although it's one of the only modifiable factors for complications and deaths after cardiac and noncardiac surgery, there's very little consensus as to even how to define it.”

“Nevertheless, I want to make it absolutely clear that these are not clinical practice guidelines. What we wanted to do was go to a higher viewpoint and determine how we can actually fix this problem from a systems level.”