Complications of General Anesthesia

✍ Scribed by Harris, Michelle; Chung, Frances

• Book ID: 121754865
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 888 KB
• Volume: 40
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0094-1298
• DOI: 10.1016/j.cps.2013.07.001

✦ Synopsis

Perioperative cardiac complications include myocardial ischemia or infarction (MI), heart failure (HF), and cardiac arrest.

Myocardial Infarction

Recent studies suggest up to 5% of patients undergoing elective noncardiac surgery have MI. 3 In the presence of 1 cardiac risk factor, the incidence is 4.4%, with the risk of cardiovascular death approximately 1.6%. 4

Most perioperative

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