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Published in: Critical Care 2/2011

01-04-2011 | Review

Triage of high-risk surgical patients for intensive care

Authors: Julia B Sobol, Hannah Wunsch

Published in: Critical Care | Issue 2/2011

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Patients who undergo high-risk non-cardiac surgical procedures represent a large proportion of admissions to intensive care units (ICUs) in the developed world [1]. Ideally, surgeons, anesthesiologists, and intensivists admitting surgical patients to ICUs target the patients who will benefit most from this highest level of post-operative care. However, accurately identifying which patients are at high risk of complications or death after major surgery remains difficult. For example, a recent study in the United Kingdom demonstrated that patients undergoing high-risk general surgical procedures comprised only 12.5% of surgical admissions to hospitals but over 80% of deaths, with less than 15% of these high-risk patients admitted to the ICU postoperatively [2]. …
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Metadata
Title
Triage of high-risk surgical patients for intensive care
Authors
Julia B Sobol
Hannah Wunsch
Publication date
01-04-2011
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Critical Care / Issue 2/2011
Electronic ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/cc9999

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