Open AccessRoad to Perioperative Medicine: A Perspective From China
Author(s) -
Tianlong Wang,
Xiaoming Deng,
Yuguang Huang,
Lee A. Fleisher,
Lize Xiong
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
anesthesia and analgesia/anesthesia and analgesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.404
H-Index - 201
eISSN - 1526-7598
pISSN - 0003-2999
DOI - 10.1213/ane.0000000000004074
Subject(s) - anesthesiology , perioperative , pain medicine , perioperative medicine , china , medicine , perspective (graphical) , intensive care medicine , emergency medicine , anesthesia , political science , artificial intelligence , computer science , law
With the development of anesthesiology, patient safety has been remarkably improved, but the postoperative mortality rate at 30 days is still as high as 0.56%-4%, and the morbidity is even higher. Three years ago, the Chinese Society of Anesthesiology proposed that the direction of the anesthesiology development should be changed to perioperative medicine in China. Anesthesiologists should pay more attention to the long-term outcome. In this article, we introduced what we have done, what the challenges are, and what we should do in the future with regard to the practice of perioperative medicine in China.