The authors reviewed all negative preoperative dobutamine stress echocardiograms (DSEs) performed over a 3-year period to determine the value of negative DSE for preoperative risk assessment in ...

Vol. 2, No. 3/4, SPECIAL ISSUE: THE QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE: TRANSACTIONS OF THE 7TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE (1990), pp. 243-251 (9 pages) Surgical ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Smilowitz and Berger reviewed studies published between January 1, 1949 and January 27, 2020 to find available ...

Patients with end-stage liver disease often undergo surgery for indications other than liver transplantation. These patients have an increased risk of morbidity and mortality that is related to their ...

Analyzing the Mini-Cog score as a continuous variable, it was found to have a nearly linear negative correlation with POD risk: for each 1-point increase in the score, the risk of POD decreased by 23% ...

Measuring N-terminal pro–B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) levels preoperatively among patients scheduled to undergo inpatient noncardiac surgery can strongly predict the risk of major cardiac ...

In patients undergoing noncardiac surgery, current tools for preoperative risk stratification do not prognosticate either postoperative troponin levels or 1-year all-cause mortality, according to new ...

WASHINGTON -- Posters at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology annual meeting provided data about an antibiotic allergy assessment tool via a smartphone app, a direct oral challenge ...

According to center policies, all patients deemed appropriate for procedures performed at the center are to be interviewed in order to collect a comprehensive patient history, to include medications, ...