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New therapy in cardioprotection
Purpose of review: An increasing number of patients are presenting for major surgery with cardiovascular comorbidities. Evidence of myocardial injury was found in 8% of all noncardiac surgery patients older than 45 years and was associated with adverse outcome. For this reason, there has been a lot of interest in finding and evaluating effective cardioprotective interventions.
Recent findings: Current evidence suggests that statins, volatile anesthetic agents, and propofol are cardioprotective. Beta blockers reduce myocardial injury, but the resultant hypotension may contribute to the increased all-cause mortality and stro...
Source: Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology - July 3, 2015 Category: Anesthesiology Tags: DRUGS IN ANESTHESIA: Edited by Tong J. Gan Source Type: research
