https://www.selleckchem.com/products/ym201636.html When admission to the intensive care unit is granted patient transport from the operating room to the intensive care unit and patient handover to ICU-staff are further issues relevant to postoperative patient safety. Intrahospital transports are prone to adverse events and need careful preparation to be executed safely. In addition, exchange of clinical information during the transfer of responsibility between anesthesiologist and the intensive care physician has been recognized as a high-risk area for medical errors to occur. Structured handover protocols can reduce communication breakdowns during postoperative transfer of patients from the OR to the ICU.With patient safety being anesthesiologists' top priority, the focus of preoperative assessment must be to reduce perioperative morbidity and mortality of each patient entrusted to us. Perioperative risk is multifactorial and depends on the extent of surgery and the preoperative condition of the patient.The three main causes of unexpected perioperative death are cardiac arrest, hypoxemia and acute bleeding. Therefore, cardiac and pulmonary risk assessment should cover pre-existing conditions, patient's functional capacity and risk factors associated with the surgical procedure. Specific assessment tools have been developed, are easily accessible and have proven effective in every day clinical practice. Regarding the risk of bleeding, taking a detailed patients' history (including medication) seems to be more suitable to detect mild bleeding disorders than laboratory screening.Functional capacity, defined as the patient's ability to cope with everyday life, gains importance in preoperative risk assessment, as do further factors like deficiencies in nutrition, anaemia, physical capacity, the metabolic status or frailty in the elderly. Prehabilitation strategies reduce perioperative mortality and morbidity by improving functional capacity. These include preoperative n