title: Postoperative care of vascular surgery patients.
abstract: Vascular surgery continues to carry one of the highest postoperative morbidity and mortality rates. A detailed understanding of postoperative central nervous, myocardial, respiratory, and renal pathophysiology potentially helps to improve outcome. Current economic constraints, combined with changing intraoperative management, prompt inquiry into whether these patients can safely be managed outside of an intensive care unit setting. This article reviews whether efforts to less invasively manage these patients intraoperatively improves postoperative outcome remains under investigation, and what is known about the effects on postoperative outcome of regional anesthesia for carotid endarterectomy and endovascular treatment of aortic vascular disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology and Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 619 South 19th Street, JT-845 Birmingham, AL 35249, USA. philip.mcardle@ccc.uab.edu
authors.forename: Philip J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: McArdle
authors.forename: K David
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Sanders
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016894:Endarterectomy, Carotid; D006801:Humans; D011182:Postoperative Care; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000628:therapy; D014218:Triage; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures