Long-term consequences of anesthetic management.

Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of four Editorial Views on long-term outcomes after anesthesia and surgery. This series adds to other recent Editorial Views in ANESTHESIOLOGY and includes a discussion of broadening our research outside of the operating room to prevention of wound infections, cancer spread, cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, chronic postsurgical pain, and rare complications. ANESTHESIOLOGY will sponsor special sessions in 2010 on the topic of long-term outcomes at annual meetings of the Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists, the European Society of Anesthesiology, and the American Society of Anesthesiologists.