Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has launched a new journal titled Perioperative Medicine. In its introductory edition, the journal offers guidelines for fluid management during surgery. The consensus statement was agreed by the clinical leaders of the English Enhanced Recovery Partnership, set up by the UK Department of Health to improve recovery after major surgery.
The statement provides evidence-based guidelines for fluid management in high-risk patients, including the training of all anesthetists in the use of cardiac output measuring technologies.
Perioperative Medicine is an open access, peer-reviewed, international journal that seeks to publish highly topical clinical research relating to the perioperative care of surgical patients. Edited by Monty Mythen, University College Hospital and Mark Hamilton, St George's Hospital, both in London, the journal welcomes research in all areas relevant to perioperative medicine from any healthcare professional. The first articles are seen to exemplify the journal’s mission to look across the continuum of care from around the world and contain research from China, Ireland, the UK and the US.
