2014 ACC/AHA guideline on perioperative cardiovascular evaluation and management of patients undergoing noncardiac surgery: Executive summary a report of the american college of cardiology/american heart association task force on practice guidelines

Circulation

Volumn 130, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 2215-2245

  Fleisher, Lee A ^a   Fleischmann, Kirsten E ^a   Auerbach, Andrew D ^a   Barnason, Susan A ^a   Beckman, Joshua A ^a   Bozkurt, Biykem ^a   Davila Roman, Victor G ^a   Gerhard Herman, Marie D ^a   Holly, Thomas A ^a   Kane, Garvan C ^a   Marine, Joseph E ^a   Nelson, M Timothy ^a   Spencer, Crystal C ^a   Thompson, Annemarie ^a   Ting, Henry H ^a   Uretsky, Barry F ^a   Wijeysundera, Duminda N ^a   Anderson, Jeffrey L ^a   Halperin, Jonathan L ^a   Albert, Nancy M ^a   Brindis, Ralph G ^a   Curtis, Lesley H ^a   DeMets, David ^a   Gidding, Samuel ^a   Hochman, Judith S ^a   Kovacs, Richard J ^a   Ohman, E Magnus ^a   Pressler, Susan J ^a   Sellke, Frank W ^a   Shen, Win Kuang ^a   more..

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; TROPONIN;

ALGORITHM; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL PROCEDURE; ANESTHESIST; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BARE METAL STENT; CARDIAC SURGEON; CARDIOLOGIST; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUTERIZATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMORBIDITY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CORONARY STENT; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG ELUTING STENT; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXERCISE TEST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART PROTECTION; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PACEMAKER; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PHARMACOLOGIC STRESS TESTING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; STENT THROMBOSIS; SURGICAL PATIENT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UNITED STATES; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; ANALGESIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; GENERAL SURGERY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; PROCEDURES;

AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PAIN MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE MANAGEMENT; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84918506276     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000000105     Document Type: Review

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