EDITED BY
KEITH J. RUSKIN
MARJORIE P. STIEGLER
STANLEY H. ROSENBAUM

2016

Perioperative medicine is characterized by many factors that can cause patient harm.
Care is delivered by multispecialty teams with varying levels of expertise and mutual familiarity, while patients present in various states of preexisting health and optimization for procedures that impart significant physiologic stresses and surgical insults.