Postoperative metabolic stress: interventional strategies.
More and more evidence accumulates suggesting that the reversal of the catabolic responses to surgery is associated with better outcome. The potential for anesthesiologists to be involved in altering outcome by simply preserving a normal blood glucose, providing optimal pain control and perioperative feeding is tremendous.
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Department of Anaesthesia, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. franco.carli@mcgill.ca