TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Preface A1 - Cohn, Steven L. PY - 2021 T2 - Decision Making in Perioperative Medicine: Clinical Pearls AB - Worldwide, over 200 million people undergo major surgery every year. Although patients are unlikely to die from anesthesia, the burden of perioperative complications falls more on exacerbations of underlying medical conditions, in part because we are operating on older and sicker patients. While it is unrealistic to believe that perioperative deaths and complications can be completely eliminated, our goal is to minimize this risk as much as possible. SN - PB - McGraw Hill CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1179530277 ER -