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01-06-2019 | Editorial
Perioperative goal-directed therapy: what’s the best study design to investigate its impact on patient outcome?
Authors:
Bernd Saugel, Alexandre Joosten, Thomas W. L. Scheeren
Published in:
Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing
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Issue 3/2019
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Excerpt
The impact of anesthetic management on short and long-term postoperative outcomes is a subject of current research in anesthesiology [
1]. There is increasing evidence that certain aspects of anesthetic management—including perioperative goal-directed blood flow and fluid optimization [
2,
3] and monitoring of the depth of anesthesia [
4,
5]—can have a beneficial impact on postoperative complication rates. …