This is a complimentary chapter from the textbook,Fundamental Critical Care Support: Surgical 2021, titled "Approach to the Surgical Patient, Part 1: Overview of the Care for the Critically Ill Patient."
Learning Objectives:

• Describe the physiologic disorders that occur with surgery.
• Identify common complications that occur in critically ill surgical patients and their treatment.
• List the effects of anesthesia in the perioperative period.
• List and distinguish the different types of adverse drug interactions caused by anesthetics in the postoperative period.
• Describe the components in a successful handoff of a critically ill surgical patient to the ICU team.