Can anaesthetic technique effect postoperative outcome?

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 185-198

  Kavanagh, Trevor ^a   Buggy, Donal J ^a,b  

^a MATER MISERICORDIAE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b OUTCOMES RESEARCH CONSORTIUM   (United States)

Author keywords

Anaesthesia; Cancer; Long term outcomes

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CELECOXIB; DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE; DICLOFENAC; ERYTHROPOIETIN; ETODOLAC; INDOMETACIN; INSULIN; IRON; ISOFLURANE; KETOROLAC; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; METOPROLOL; METOPROLOL SUCCINATE; MORPHINE; MORPHINE SULFATE; NITROUS OXIDE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; OXYGEN; PARACETAMOL; PARECOXIB; PROPOFOL; PROPRANOLOL; REMIFENTANIL; SEVOFLURANE; TRAMADOL; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ANEMIA; ANESTHESIA; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; BLEEDING; BLOOD OXYGEN TENSION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHRONIC PAIN; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DOSAGE SCHEDULE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INTERMITTENT THERAPY; DRUG MEGADOSE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HEART ARREST; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOMODULATION; INDUCED HYPOTENSION; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INFECTION PREVENTION; INSULIN TREATMENT; LUNG METASTASIS; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; STROKE; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURVIVAL TIME; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; WARMING; WOUND HEALING;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COGNITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NITROUS OXIDE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84859774733     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: 14736500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACO.0b013e32834f6c4c     Document Type: Review

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