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Archive > July, 2007 Vol. VIII, No. 7

Anesthesia Alert

How Much of a Cardiac Work-up Is Too Much?

Adam Dorin, MD, MBA

We're not actuaries, but we know that the best practices in anesthesia often require calculating risk. No matter how much number-crunching we do for the pre-operative cardiac evaluation, though, our final assessment will likely rest more with the art than with the science of our clinical trade. It comes down to recognizing the signs and symptoms that can compromise our patient's health and determining if the procedure's benefits are worth the risks.

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