• Thoracic surgery clinics · Feb 2005

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    Preoperative assessment: an anesthesiologist's perspective.

    • Peter D Slinger and Michael R Johnston.
    • Department of Anesthesia, University of Toronto, and The University Health Network, Toronto General Hospital, 3EN 200 Elizabeth Street, Toronto, ON, Canada, M5G 2C4. peter.slinger@uhn.on.ca
    • Thorac Surg Clin. 2005 Feb 1; 15 (1): 11-25.

    AbstractAdvances in anesthesia and surgery have made it so that almost any patient with a resectable lung malignancy is now an operative candidate given a full understanding of the risks and after appropriate investigation. This situation necessitates a change in the paradigm that anesthesiologists use for preoperative assessment. Understanding and stratifying the perioperative risks allows the anesthesiologist to develop a systematic focused approach to these patients at the time of the initial contact and immediately before induction, which can be used to guide anesthetic management.

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