EPICC Surgical stress response Preface EPICC Surgical stress response EPICC Surgical stress response Table of contents: Preface Introduction Definition of surgical stress Endocrine and metabolic responses in surgical stress Management of temperature and shivering Cardiac complications after non cardiac surgery, myocardial injury after MINS and myocardial infraction Impact on kidney function of surgical stress Effect of general anaesthesia on surgical stress response Neurohormonal modulation of cognition EPICC Surgical stress response Preface EPICC Surgical stress response