TY - JOUR
T1 - Preoperative medical consultation and evaluation of surgical risk
AU - Houston, Mark C.
AU - Ratcliff, David G.
AU - Taylor Hays, J.
AU - Gluck, Frank W.
PY - 1987/11
Y1 - 1987/11
N2 - Internists are frequently asked to assess the surgical risk of patients with various medical problems. Numerous recent prospective studies have defined specific risk factors for increased morbidity and mortality in the preoperative evaluation of surgical patients. Careful attention to such factors as age, type of operation and anesthesia, underlying pulmonary, hypertensive, cardiac, renal, hepatic, endocrine, and hematologic diseases, and nutritional status can reduce the complication rate and death rate in surgical patients if specific preoperative, operative, and postoperative therapeutic maneuvers are instituted. A comprehensive comparative analysis by the internist, surgeon, and anesthesiologist should be made on all high-risk surgical patients to improve their medical care.
AB - Internists are frequently asked to assess the surgical risk of patients with various medical problems. Numerous recent prospective studies have defined specific risk factors for increased morbidity and mortality in the preoperative evaluation of surgical patients. Careful attention to such factors as age, type of operation and anesthesia, underlying pulmonary, hypertensive, cardiac, renal, hepatic, endocrine, and hematologic diseases, and nutritional status can reduce the complication rate and death rate in surgical patients if specific preoperative, operative, and postoperative therapeutic maneuvers are instituted. A comprehensive comparative analysis by the internist, surgeon, and anesthesiologist should be made on all high-risk surgical patients to improve their medical care.
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U2 - 10.1097/00007611-198711000-00013
DO - 10.1097/00007611-198711000-00013
M3 - Article
C2 - 3317895
AN - SCOPUS:0023490450
SN - 0038-4348
VL - 80
SP - 1385
EP - 1397
JO - Southern medical journal
JF - Southern medical journal
IS - 11
ER -