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Defining Palliative Care Palliative care is defined by the World Health Organization as “an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering…
Key Points ▪ Perioperative risk is multifactorial and may occur as a result of anesthesia-, surgery-, and/or patient-specific factors. ▪ Anesthesia-related (and surgery-related) risk is typically defined as morbidity and mortality occurring within 30 days of surgery, although events that…