Perioperative medicine
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Article
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2006
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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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.