Current guideline-based preoperative evaluation provides the best management of patients undergoing noncardiac surgery

Circulation

Volumn 117, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 3134-3144

  Gregoratos, Gabriel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; ATENOLOL; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BISOPROLOL; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; METOPROLOL; PLACEBO;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG POTENCY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEART INDEX; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART PROTECTION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK REDUCTION; STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SURGICAL RISK; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; VASCULAR SURGERY; AGED; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; HEART DISEASE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SURGERY; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 48249148848     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.761759     Document Type: Review

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