Preoperative evaluation: Take it step by step Identifying patients at higher risk for mortality and morbidity during the perioperative period can lead to strategies to minimize those risks.

In noncardiac surgery, perioperative beta-blocker therapy has been identified recently as an important quality measure of evidence-based care. Given this development, the ACC and AHA expedited ...

The American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology joint guideline addressing cardiovascular evaluation and management of patients before, during and after noncardiac surgery ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association have released a focused update concerning the ...

New guidelines from the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association (ACC/AHA), in collaboration with several other groups, are now available for the perioperative evaluation and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Perioperative stroke, a major complication of cardiac and thoracic aortic surgeries, has many possible origins, ...

Stepwise approach to perioperative cardiac management can help doctors decide whether surgery should proceed. (HealthDay News) — In a clinical practice guideline issued by the American College of ...

Background Secondary tricuspid regurgitation (TR) often develops or persists following left-sided valve surgery. However, its ...

Stroke is one of the most feared complications of surgery. to provide adequate preventive and therapeutic measures, physicians need to be knowledgeable about the risk factors for stroke during the ...

October 2, 2012 — The American College of Surgeons (ACS) and the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) have issued a best practices guideline for preoperative evaluation of patients at least 65 years of ...

Ambulatory surgery is a major area of surgical and anesthetic practice, and preoperative clinics are being increasingly used for low-risk surgical procedures. This study investigated the impact of ...