Preventing mortality in cardiac surgery with anesthetic drugs and techniques. There is need for a consensus conference

摘要

Anesthesiologists use a variety of drugs that have non-anesthetic, pharmacological properties that could reduce early and long term mortality in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. The use of specific anesthetic drugs [1,2,3] and techniques [4], together with drugs managed mainly by cardiac anesthesiologists[5,6,7,8,9] have recently been associated with improved perioperative survival in cardiac surgery . [10] The numbers needed to treat are impressive (Table 1).