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Postoperative multiple organ failure
1California College of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Medical Center, Orange.
Critical Care Clinics
|April 1, 1987
Abstract:
Cellular damage is the pathophysiologic basis for the postoperative multiple organ failure syndrome. This damage may be caused by pre- and intraoperative shock. Postoperative organ failure is manifested when cellular repair does not occur. Three factors may contribute to this progression to multiple organ failure: inadequate resuscitation, malnutrition, and sepsis.