Each year, cardiac complications occur within 30 days after major noncardiac surgery in
more than 10 million people worldwide; postoperative mortality is 1.5%. Enhanced patient …

Severe obesity is associated with increased morbidity and mortality and represents a major
health care problem with increasing incidence worldwide. Bariatric surgery, through its …

Objective The development of these updated clinical practice guidelines (CPG) was
commissioned by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, The Obesity …

The purpose of this update of the European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA) guidelines on
the pre-operative evaluation of the adult undergoing noncardiac surgery is to present …

Background: Intraoperative hypotension (IOH) may be associated with postoperative acute
kidney injury (AKI), but the duration of hypotension for triggering harm is unclear. The …

Background Preoperative risk assessments used in clinical practice are insufficient in their
ability to identify risk for postoperative mortality. Deep-learning analysis of …

The Clinical Practice Guidelines for perioperative cardiovascular evaluation and
management for non-cardiac surgery were initially developed by the Japanese Circulation …

Background: Currently used indices for pre-operative cardiovascular evaluation are either
powerful, but complex, or simple, but with weak discriminatory power. Objectives: This study …

Abstract Background The National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Myocardial
Infarction & Cardiac Arrest (NSQIP MICA) calculator and the Revised Cardiac Risk Index …

The 2014 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Perioperative
Guidelines suggest using the Revised Cardiac Risk Index, myocardial infarction or cardiac …