Guidelines for pre-operative cardiac risk assessment and perioperative cardiac management in non-cardiac surgery: The task force for preoperative cardiac risk assessment and perioperative cardiac management in non-cardiac surgery of the European society of Cardiology (ESC) and endorsed by the European society of anaesthesiology (ESA)

European Journal of Anaesthesiology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 92-137

  Poldermans, Don ^a   Bax, Jeroen J ^a   Boersma, Eric ^a   De Hert, Stefan ^a   Eeckhout, Erik ^a   Fowkes, Gerry ^a   Gorenek, Bulent ^a   Hennerici, Michael G ^a   Iung, Bernard ^a   Kelm, Malte ^a   Kjeldsen, Keld Per ^a   Kristensen, Steen Dalby ^a   Lopez Sendon, Jose ^a   Pelosi, Paolo ^a   Philippe, François ^a   Pierard, Luc ^a   Ponikowski, Piotr ^a   Schmid, Jean Paul ^a   Sellevold, Olav F M ^a   Sicari, Rosa ^a   Van Den Berghe, Greet ^a   Vermassen, Frank ^a   more..

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anaesthesiology; Neurological disease; Non cardiac surgery; Perioperative cardiac management; Post operative cardiac surveillance; Pre operative cardiac risk assessment; Pre operative cardiac testing; Pre operative coronary artery revascularization; Pulmonary disease; Renal disease

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ATENOLOL; ATORVASTATIN; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BISOPROLOL; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIHYDROPYRIDINE DERIVATIVE; DILTIAZEM; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIPYRIDAMOLE; FLUINDOSTATIN; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; METOPROLOL; METOPROLOL SUCCINATE; METOPROLOL TARTRATE; NIFEDIPINE; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; QUINAPRIL; ROSUVASTATIN; THALLIUM 201; TROPONIN I; TROPONIN T; UNINDEXED DRUG; VERAPAMIL;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; AGING; ANALGESIA; ANESTHESIA; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANGIOPLASTY; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BARE METAL STENT; BICYCLE ERGOMETRY; BLEEDING; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRADYCARDIA; BREAST SURGERY; CARDIOPULMONARY FUNCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY SURGERY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DEFIBRILLATOR; DENTAL SURGERY; DISORDERS OF CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG ELUTING STENT; DRUG MEGADOSE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCRINE SURGERY; EYE SURGERY; FLUID SHIFT; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HIP SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KNEE SURGERY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; MONITORING; MORTALITY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPERATION DURATION; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PACEMAKER; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SINUS BRADYCARDIA; SPINE SURGERY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; SURGERY; SURGICAL RISK; TORSADE DES POINTES; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREADMILL EXERCISE; UROLOGIC SURGERY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; VASCULAR SURGERY;

EID: 77952366512     PISSN: 02650215     EISSN: 13652346     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EJA.0b013e328334c017     Document Type: Review

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