Authors: Owen Boyd R Michael Grounds
Publish Date: 2013/10/01
Volume: 39, Issue: 12, Pages: 2107-2114
Abstract
Goaldirected perioperative therapy GDT is now part of a number of international perioperative protocols and to some extent seems to have come of age but no research takes place in isolation and it is valuable to retrospectively look at influential papers to understand the context and influences of the time the research was undertakenOne of the earliest publication of a randomised trial of GDT was a study we published 20 years ago in 1993 with coauthor Professor E David Bennett In this article we describe the work leading up to our research and look at the historical context of our study and choices we made in designing a protocol
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