Perioperative interventions for prevention of postoperative pulmonary complications: systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To identify, appraise, and synthesise the best available evidence on the efficacy of perioperative interventions to reduce postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs) in adult patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery.

Design

Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.

Data sources

Medline, Embase, CINHAL, and CENTRAL from January 1990 to December 2017.

Eligibility criteria

Randomised controlled trials investigating short term, protocolised medical interventions conducted before, during, or after non-cardiac surgery were included. Trials with clinical diagnostic criteria for PPC outcomes were included. Studies of surgical technique or physiological or biochemical outcomes were excluded.

Data extraction and synthesis

Revi

SUBMITTER: Odor PM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7190038 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature