Perioperative medicine & outcomes
Postoperative hypotension: a complex but modifiable target to improve perioperative care after noncardiac surgery
Study context
- Population
- Patients after noncardiac surgery
- Participants
- more than 25,000 patients · 42 countries
- Exposure
- Postoperative vasopressor infusion use vs none
- Outcome
- Vasopressor infusion use as a marker of clinically significant postoperative hypotension
Methodological details42 countries
- 42 countries
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Incidence of vasopressor infusion use
Overall incidence of vasopressor infusion use
3.9%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Complications, hospital LOS, in-hospital mortality
- Higher complication rates, prolonged hospital stays and higher in-hospital mortality with vasopressor infusion
Original publication
Postoperative hypotension: a complex but modifiable target to improve perioperative care after noncardiac surgery. Br J Anaesth. Published 16 October 2025. doi:10.
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