Table 1 Anesthesia-related intervention themes by number of studies and patients
From: Anesthesia interventions that alter perioperative mortality: a scoping review
Intervention category | Number of studies | Number of patients |
|---|---|---|
Anesthetic technique | 13 | 2445 |
Dialysis | 1 | 44 |
Glucose control | 6 | 2139 |
IV fluids | 13 | 1869 |
Medical device | 21 | 5233 |
Monitoring | 4 | 3341 |
Nutritional | 28 | 5191 |
Pharmacotherapy | 207 | 104,413 |
Physiotherapy | 2 | 283 |
Preoperative procedure | 1 | 510 |
Protocol/guidelines implementation | 22 | 2705 |
Temperature management | 4 | 2444 |
Testing | 2 | 1566 |
Transfusion | 23 | 8747 |
Ventilation | 18 | 5469 |
Combination of interventions | 4 | 927 |
Total | 369 | 147,326 |