Case Report

Preanesthetic Cardiac Evaluation

Authors: ALLEN SHEPARD, MD

Abstract

The author makes a plea for the preanesthetic evaluation of cardiac performance. With an increasing number of older patients coming to operation as well as operations upon persons with heart disease, such an evaluation is becoming mandatory.

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