Open AccessTiming and Risk Factors Associated With Postoperative Stroke in Vascular Surgery Patients Using Time-Varying Coefficients From a Cox Model
Author(s) -
Laurel E. Moore,
Joseph Sferra,
Milo Engoren
Publication year - 2020
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.0000000000004595
Subject(s) - medicine , stroke (engine) , hazard ratio , perioperative , propensity score matching , proportional hazards model , prospective cohort study , incidence (geometry) , cohort , population , cohort study , surgery , cardiology , anesthesia , confidence interval , mechanical engineering , physics , environmental health , optics , engineering
Mechanisms of postoperative stroke are poorly understood, particularly for strokes occurring after uneventful emergence from anesthesia. We sought to create a model to study retrospectively the timing and associations for stroke in a high-risk surgery population.