Guidelines for preoperative cardiac risk assessment
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Preoperative cardiac risk assessment.
Preoperative cardiac evaluation is aimed at evaluating the patient's current medical status, making recommendations concerning the risk of cardiac problems in the perioperative period, and providing a clinical risk profile that the patient, primary physician, consultants, anesthesiologist, and surgeon can use in making treatment decisions. Patients can be stratified on clinical grounds into low...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Anaesthesia
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0007-0912
DOI: 10.1093/bja/aes005