Objectives Statins improve overall outcomes after noncardiac surgery. on postoperative day 3. Due to difficulty enrolling statin-naive patients the study was stopped at the interim analysis. Results Postoperative complications occurred in 16 of 72 (22%) patients receiving placebo and in 8 of 65 (12%) receiving atorvastatin P=0.13). For patients undergoing major anatomic resection there were… Continue reading Objectives Statins improve overall outcomes after noncardiac surgery. on postoperative day