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What is your approach to evaluating post-operative hypotension?

Specifically, how do you distinguish a delayed anesthesia effect from an alternative etiology?
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Hospital Medicine · University of Minnesota
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Postoperative hypotension secondary to anesthesia could very well be a case of retrospective diagnosis and, to some extent, diagnosis of exclusion.

When a patient is hypotensive in the postoperative period, confirming true hypotension with a manual BP and looking for signs of reduced end-organ perfus...

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