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This review article discusses the identification and evaluation of high-risk emergency surgical patients, critical care support, sepsis management, and postoperative complications.
This review discusses the identification and management of high-risk patients presenting for emergency surgery.
May inform perioperative strategies for high-risk emergency surgery; leaves open prospective validation of protocols.
Patients presenting for emergency surgery represent a category at high risk of complications, with substantial morbidity and mortality, whose management may be extremely challenging. In this first of two articles we consider the identification and evaluation of high risk emergency patients, the provision of critical care support, the management of sepsis, common postoperative complications and in-theatre death.
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Gray et al. (2012) conducted a review in Emergency surgery. Organisation and planning of anaesthesia was evaluated. This review article discusses the identification and evaluation of high-risk emergency surgical patients, critical care support, sepsis management, and postoperative complications.
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