… , or functional capacity, is an important component of risk assessment before major non-cardiac
surgery. … To assess the validity of this commonly used measure of functional capacity, we …

… The main findings of this analysis are that for patients undergoing elevated risk noncardiac
surgery, functional capacity in METs estimated using self-reported tolerance of reference …

… In conclusion, in patients at high cardiovascular risk undergoing inhospital noncardiac
surgery, self-reported functional capacity less than two flights of stairs, one of the daily activities …

… determine whether the subjectively estimated functional capacity correlated to the actual
functional capacity. Finally, as the assessment of functional capacity was not standardised, this …

… patients undergoing major noncardiac surgery. This study showed no association between
postoperative complications and the patient's functional capacity assessed subjectively by …

… events after noncardiac surgery using self-reported functional capacity: international …
Self-reported measures of functional capacity consisted of functional capacity in METs (estimated …

… evidence on clinical tools to assess functional capacity prior to elective non-cardiac surgery.
… on functional capacity assessment tools for adults undergoing elective non-cardiac surgery. …

… or high-risk surgery.Further, the … functional capacity >4 METs can directly proceed to surgery
without further cardiovascular testing.Hence, accurate measurement of functional capacity is …

… Functional capacity is an integral component of the pre-operative evaluation of the
cardiac patient for non-cardiac surgery. Stair climbing capacity has peri-operative prognostic …

… However, sex-specific differences in exercise capacity have not been investigated … non-cardiac
surgery. We postulated that sex-specific differences exist in patients’ functional capacity …