Key result
Editorial emphasizes significant UK critical care improvements despite historically higher peri-operative mortality versus the USA.
Why the study?
There is concern about higher risk-adjusted mortality for non-cardiac surgery in the UK compared to the USA and the need to improve peri-operative outcomes through critical care investment.
Design
Editorial reflecting on evolution of anaesthesia and critical care in the UK
Authors
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UK peri-operative care advances support sustained critical care investment despite constraints; leaves open need for updated UK-USA outcome benchmarks.
An editorial reflecting on the evolution of anaesthesia and critical care in the UK, emphasizing that despite current financial constraints, long-term improvements in peri-operative care have been substantial.
Goldhill et al. (2012) conducted an editorial in Peri-operative mortality. Critical care investment was evaluated. Historical data showed higher peri-operative mortality in the UK versus the USA (9.9% vs 2.1%), but this editorial emphasizes that significant improvements in UK critical care have since occurred.
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