title: Organisation and planning of anaesthesia for emergency surgery.
abstract: Patients presenting for emergency surgery represent a category at high risk of complications, with substantial morbidity and mortality, whose management may be extremely challenging. In this first of two articles we consider the identification and evaluation of high risk emergency patients, the provision of critical care support, the management of sepsis, common postoperative complications and in-theatre death.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK.
authors.forename: L D
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Gray
authors.forename: C G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Morris
mesh_terms: D000758:Anesthesia / Q000379:methods*; D019090:Case Management; D003643:Death; D004632:Emergency Medical Services / Q000379:methods*; D013502:General Surgery / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D019344:Lactic Acid / Q000097:blood; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000628:therapy; D018570:Risk Assessment; D018805:Sepsis / Q000517:prevention & control
chemical_list: D019344:Lactic Acid