Raising the Alarm on Brain Attacks in Surgical Patients: Are We Doing Enough to Prevent and Treat Postoperative Strokes?

(Abstracted from Anesthesiology, 127(1):3–5, 2017) This editorial provides an overview of the study by Christiansen et al,1 which demonstrates that a history of acute ischemic stroke within 3 months of emergency noncardiac, nonintracranial surgery significantly increased the risk of a postoperative stroke using data from the Danish National Patient Registry.
Source: Survey of Anesthesiology - Category: Anesthesiology Tags: Coexisting Disease Source Type: research