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Risks of noncardiac surgery in the cardiac patient
C Traube1, A M Marush, S Plawes
1State University of New York, Brooklyn, College of Medicine.
Hospital Practice (Office Ed.)
|October 30, 1989
Abstract:
Patients with ischemic heart disease undergoing surgery under general anesthesia have a substantially increased associated risk of myocardial infarction and cardiac death. Preoperative risk assessment, anticipation of intraoperative problems, and postoperative management are important in improving prognosis. Elective surgery generally poses a lower risk than emergency surgery.