Preoperative Risk Assessment

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...

Preoperative airway assessment: predictive value of a multivariate risk index.

Using readily available and objective airway risk criteria, a multivariate model for stratifying risk of difficult endotracheal intubation was developed and its accuracy compared to currently applied clinical methods. We studied 10,507 consecutive patients who were prospectively assessed prior to general anesthesia with respect to mouth opening, thyromental distance, oropharyngeal (Mallampati) ...

Preoperative screening: the rationale of measuring APTT in risk assessment.

Preoperative assessment of surgical risk in oncogeriatric patients.

Cancer is a prevalent disease in our aging population; however, few oncologists are familiar with caring for oncogeriatric patients. Surgery is presently the treatment of choice for most solid tumors, but it is frequently delivered in a suboptimal way in this patient subsetting. Undertreatment is often justified with the concern of an unsustainable toxicity, while overtreatment can be related t...

Carotid endarterectomy. Complications and preoperative assessment of risk.

A system of grouping patients according to preoperative evaluation of risk of carotid endarterectomy is presented. The primary complications of this surgical procedure were myocardial infarction and residual mild to severe neurologic deficit. Neurologically stable patients without medical or angiographically determined risk factors (group 1, 129 patients) have a risk of 1%. Neurologically stabl...