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Major gastrointestinal cancer surgeries are linked to significant perioperative mortality and morbidity from major adverse cardiac events, prompting evaluation of perioperative patient-controlled epidural analgesia.
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Cardiac risky patients undergoing major gastrointestinal cancer surgery
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Background and Objectives: Major gastrointestinal cancer surgeries are associated with significant perioperative mortality and morbidity due to increased incidence of major perioperative cardiovascular event (MACEs). This study examined the effect of perioperative patient controlled epidural analgesia (PCEA) on reduction of MACEs in cardiac risky patients undergoing major gastrointestinal cancer surgery.
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Elzohry et al. (2019) studied this question.
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