A Recipe for Perioperative Cardioprotection

Editorial A Recipe for Perioperative Cardioprotection

The question of what is the ideal anesthetic for patients with cardiovascular disease has been debated for nearly 3 decades, and, similar to the case for the use of perioperative -blockers, the answer appears to be increasingly enigmatic. In the current issue of Circulation, Buse et al1 report the results of a randomized clinical trial to evaluate the effects of the volatile anesthetic sevoflur...

A recipe for perioperative cardioprotection: what matters most? The ingredients or the chef?

Chef? A Recipe for Perioperative Cardioprotection: What Matters Most? The Ingredients or the Print ISSN: 0009-7322. Online ISSN: 1524-4539 Copyright © 2012 American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved. is published by the American Heart Association, 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX 75231 Circulation published online November 7, 2012; Circulation. http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/ea...

Perioperative cardioprotection

Although anaesthesia itself is now very safe, perioperative cardiac complications during non-cardiovascular surgery are a major cause of morbidity and mortality, because of the increasingly high underlying prevalence of cardiovascular disease. Fortunately, although there is no "magic bullet", pharmacological intervention can reduce the risk. In particular, current evidence strongly supports the...

Orange and Sunlight: A Recipe for Blisters

A recipe for transplantation.

I am greatly honoured to be invited to give the Scott-Heron Lecture for 1983 but feel very inadequate to follow the distinguished doctors who have preceded me. The interest in the kidney was first aroused by a young woman with bilateral staghorn calculi, while working as a house surgeon with the late Mr. Cecil Woodside. Mr. Woodside was a general surgeon who had a special interest in the kidney...