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See Latest ArticlesPreoperative assessment for cardiac surgery
Anaesthesia & intensive care medicine, 09/03/09
Evans C et al. – Preoperative assessment enables anaesthetists to tailor an anaesthetic to an individual patient. Established classification systems give objectivity to a patient's description of his or her effort limitation. Anaesthetists need a working knowledge of the preoperative investigations. They also need to understand risk stratification tools for cardiac surgery to answer questions from patients that relate to the risks of surgery and anaesthesia.
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