Improving the care for elective surgical patients: post-operative ICU admission and outcome

Salvatore Lucio Cutuli^{1

2}, Simone Carelli^{1

2}, Gennaro De Pascale^{1

2}, Massimo Antonelli^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Intensive Care and Anaesthesiology, Fondazione Policlinico A. Gemelli, Rome, Italy.
² Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.

Editorial

Salvatore Lucio Cutuli et al. J Thorac Dis. 2018 Apr.

. 2018 Apr;10(Suppl 9):S1047-S1049.

doi: 10.21037/jtd.2018.04.64.

Salvatore Lucio Cutuli^{1

2}, Simone Carelli^{1

2}, Gennaro De Pascale^{1

2}, Massimo Antonelli^{1

2}

¹ Department of Intensive Care and Anaesthesiology, Fondazione Policlinico A. Gemelli, Rome, Italy.
² Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.

No abstract available

Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

Critical care admission following elective surgery was not associated with survival benefit: prospective analysis of data from 27 countries.
Kahan BC, Koulenti D, Arvaniti K, Beavis V, Campbell D, Chan M, Moreno R, Pearse RM; International Surgical Outcomes Study (ISOS) group. Kahan BC, et al. Intensive Care Med. 2017 Jul;43(7):971-979. doi: 10.1007/s00134-016-4633-8. Epub 2017 Apr 25. Intensive Care Med. 2017. PMID: 28439646

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