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Surgery is the third most common cause of mortality worldwide. Focused cardiac ultrasound (FOCUS) yields information on cardiac status and discloses the presence of unknown pathology. Preoperative FOCUS changes patient… Click to show full abstract
Surgery is the third most common cause of mortality worldwide. Focused cardiac ultrasound (FOCUS) yields information on cardiac status and discloses the presence of unknown pathology. Preoperative FOCUS changes patient treatment, allowing for a patient‐tailored anaesthesia. We hypothesised that preoperative FOCUS would reduce the proportion of patients who were either admitted to hospital for more than 10 days or who were dead within 30 days after high‐risk, non‐cardiac surgery.
Keywords:
preoperative focused;
cardiac ultrasound;
high risk;
effects preoperative;
focused cardiac
Journal Title: Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica
Year Published: 2022
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Journal Title: Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica
Year Published: 2022
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