RT Book, Section
A1 Stombaugh, Sarah
A2 Le, Tao,
A2 Mendoza, Michael D.,
A2 Coffa, Diana,
A2 Saint-Hilaire, Lamercie,
SR Print(0)
ID 1208797986
T1 Surgery
T2 First Aid for the® Family Medicine Boards, 3<sup>rd</sup> Edition
YR 2018
FD 2018
PB McGraw Hill
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259835018
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1208797986
RD 2024/10/11
AB Preoperative  evaluation  is  required  before  all  surgery.  The  goal  of  the  preoperative  evaluation  is  to  assess  risk  of  cardiovascular  and  other  complications  in  the  perioperative  period.  A  thorough  evaluation  can  help  the  physician  and  patient  to  weigh  the  risks  and  benefits  of  surgery,  as  well  as  to  medically  optimize  a  patient  for  surgery.  The  presence  of  comorbid  conditions  may  necessitate  additional  lab,  ECG,  cardiac  stress,  PFT,  or  CXR  testing.  Nonselective  imaging  and  lab  screening  tests  have  been  shown  to  be  of  minimal  value.