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 …

Methods Patients with AAAs are defined as male or female patients with asymptomatic,
symptomatic or ruptured AAA with fusiform dilatation. This document does not cover patients …

BACKGROUND:: Myocardial injury after noncardiac surgery (MINS) was defined as
prognostically relevant myocardial injury due to ischemia that occurs during or within 30 …

Background Decision-making related to the care of patients with an abdominal aortic
aneurysm (AAA) is complex. Aneurysms present with varying risks of rupture, and patient …

Background: Each year, millions of patients worldwide have a perioperative myocardial
infarction (MI) after noncardiac surgery. Objective: To examine the characteristics and short …

The Clinical Practice Council of the Society for Vascular Surgery charged a writing
committee with the task of updating practice guidelines, initally published in 2003, for …

It is important that the medical profession play a significant role in critically evaluating the
use of diagnostic procedures and therapies as they are introduced and tested in the …

Background: The Revised Cardiac Risk Index (RCRI) is widely used to predict perioperative
cardiac complications. Purpose: To evaluate the ability of the RCRI to predict cardiac …

ABSTRACT A biomarker may provide a diagnosis, assess disease severity or risk, or guide
other clinical interventions such as the use of drugs. Although considerable progress has …

Background—To identify patients at risk for postoperative myocardial injury and death,
measuring cardiac troponin routinely after noncardiac surgery has been suggested. Such …