Anaes Vivas · Preoperative assessment & risk
Clinical viva — the ESC/ESA algorithm for the preoperative cardiac assessment
A clinical viva on the ESC/ESA algorithm — the urgency, the active cardiac conditions, the surgical risk, the functional capacity (METs), and the risk factors (Lee index) — the five steps.
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Prompt
The examiner asks you to talk through the step-by-step ESC/ESA algorithm for the preoperative cardiac assessment of a patient scheduled for noncardiac surgery.
Stimulus
Talk through the step-by-step ESC/ESA algorithm for the preoperative cardiac assessment of a patient scheduled for noncardiac surgery.
[2]References1ShowHide
- [2]Kristensen SD, et al. 2014 ESC/ESA guidelines on noncardiac surgery: Cardiovascular assessment and management : Are the differences clinically relevant? The European perspective. J Nucl Cardiol, 2017.PMID 27538569