What is it about?
Limited information exists about the epidemiology and outcome of surgical patients at increased risk of postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs), and how intraoperative ventilation was managed in these patients.OBJECTIVES To determine the incidence of surgical patients at increased risk of PPCs, and to compare the intraoperative ventilation management and postoperative outcomes with patients at low risk of PPCs.
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Why is it important?
This was a prospective international 1-week observational study using the ‘Assess Respiratory Risk in Surgical Patients in Catalonia risk score’ (ARISCAT score) for PPC for risk stratification.
Perspectives
I hope this article makes what people might think is a boring, slightly abstract area like health economics and measuring things like health, kind of interesting and maybe even exciting. Because the way we spend money on health and social care is not just a problem for politicians, managers and researchers to worry about - it is an issue that touches every single human being on this planet in one way or another. More than anything else, and if nothing else, I hope you find this article thought-provoking.
Dr SAMIR AHMED Ahmed ELKAFRAWY
ElSahel Teaching Hospital, Cairo, Egypt
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This page is a summary of: Epidemiology, practice of ventilation and outcome for patients at increased risk of postoperative pulmonary complications, European Journal of Anaesthesiology, August 2017, Wolters Kluwer Health,
DOI: 10.1097/eja.0000000000000646.
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