Practice Changing Updates in Perioperative Medicine Literature 2023. A Systematic Review

Perioperative medicine is an evolving field, with important publications each year across multiple disciplines. Staying up to date in the field is complicated due to the wide range of journals that publish relevant articles. This review summarizes the most noteworthy perioperative publications in 2023. We conducted a multi-database search of the literature from January to December 2023 and included all original research articles, meta-analyses, systematic reviews, and guidelines. Abstracts, case reports, letters, protocols, pediatric and obstetric articles, and cardiac surgery publications were excluded. Two authors reviewed each reference using the Distiller SR systematic review software (Evidence Partners Inc., Ottawa, Ont, Canada). A modified Delphi technique was used to identify 8 practice-changing articles as well as another 8 articles for table-based summary.