Cardiac assessment prior to non‐cardiac surgery

Increasingly, patients undergoing non‐cardiac surgery are older and have more comorbidities yet preoperative cardiac assessment appears haphazard and unsystematic. We hypothesised that patients at high cardiac risk were not receiving adequate cardiac assessment, and patients with low‐cardiac risk were being over‐investigated.

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