Our hypothesis contends that routine assessments such as higher ASA physical status classification, surgical risk as defined by American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association guidelines, and simplified Revised Cardiac Index (SRCI) can reliably be associated with SICU outcomes. METHODS: We...
The ASA classification, assigned preoperatively by the anesthesiologist during a preoperative outpatient consultation, was also recorded. The POSSUM and APACHE II scores were calculated based on medical chart review. Morbidity was defined as any complication occurring within the first 30 postoperative days...
Generally speaking, clinicians should be alert to the older adults undergoing urinary calculi surgery with high ASA classification to reduce the occurrence of POD. To date, a large body of evidence illuminated the role of UA in the nervous system. To be specific, UA could trigger the expression...
for equilibration between plasma andeffect-site concentrations.Although the success rate of regional anesthesia isreported to decrease with increasing BMI and higherASA classification [17] this did not appear to be a prob-lem in our patients who were obese and had an ASAclassification of III or ...