Post Operative Effects: Anesthesia

Anesthesia result in a variety of metabolic and endocrine responses, but conventional wisdom maintains that anesthetic technique has little long-term effect on patient outcomes. There is accumulating evidence that, on contrary, anesthetic management may in fact exert a number of longer-term effects in postoperative outcome. Here, we review the most topical aspects of anaesthetic management which may potentially influence later postoperative outcomes. Overall, there is insufficient evidence to confirm the ability of postoperative outcomes. This is primarily due to typically insufficient subject numbers to detect differences in currently low incidences of postoperative complications.