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In the last few decades the treatment of surgical patients has continuously advanced. Anaesthetic and surgical techniques have greatly improved. The treatment of hypovolemia is nowadays better mastered. Great progress has been made in the maintenance of renal and pulmonary function. The advances have reduced the numbers of immediate and early deaths after surgery. At present, many of the patients with a fatal outcome die later from infectious complications which are still the major hazard during convalescence. Increasing attention and research is therefore directed to changes during and after operation in the immune response. As a result, our understanding of immunological events is constantly improving and we are better equipped to control immune responses in patients at risk and thus reduce morbidity and mortality from infections
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- Nitrous Oxide
- Complement Activation
- Humoral Immunity
- Natural Killer Cell Activity
- Major Abdominal Surgery
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Salo, M. (1987). Surgery and the Immune Response. In: Paubert-Braquet, M., Braquet, P., Demling, B., Fletcher, J.R., Foegh, M. (eds) Lipid Mediators in the Immunology of Shock. NATO ASI Series, vol 139. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0919-2_32
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