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Cardiac risk assessment for noncardiac surgery: current concepts
A Chugh1, E Bossone, R H Mehta
1Division of Cardiology, University of Michigan, and Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Health System, Ann Arbor, Mich., USA.
Comprehensive Therapy
|April 3, 2001
Abstract:
Strategies for perioperative risk assessment in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery vary among physicians and are aimed to estimate the risk and minimize complications. We propose simplistic guidelines for assessing and modifying risk for patients undergoing a wide variety of procedures.