Orlando, Fla.—In a controversial finding, there was no apparent association noted between intraoperative hypertension and the risk for acute kidney injury (AKI), acute myocardial injury and mortality after noncardiac surgery.
The retrospective study found no obvious thresholds above which systolic blood pressure is related to postoperative acute myocardial injury/mortality or AKI. After adjusting for confounding, no apparent relationship was found between maximum cumulative systolic blood