Perioperative Dental Evaluation
โ Scribed by Jeffrey S. Yasny; Andrew Herlich
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 481 KB
- Volume
- 79
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0027-2507
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๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
Perioperative medicine refers to the medical evaluation and management of patients before, during and after surgical intervention. In the United States, over 44 million patients undergo non-cardiac surgery each year. The annual cost of perioperative cardiovascular morbidity is more than $20 billion.
Among all complications of airway management, dental injury is the most common cause of patient complaints with medicolegal consequences. Over an 8-year period, data on dental injury were collected within a large university hospital system that included community, tertiary, and quaternary care cente