2022 ESC Guidelines on cardiovascular assessment and management of patients undergoing non cardiac surgery

ESC Clinical Practice Guidelines

26 Aug 2022

These guidelines are intended for physicians, healthcare workers, and collaborators involved in the pre-operative, operative, and post-operative care of patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery. The objective is to endorse a standardised and evidence-based approach to peri-operative CV management. The guidelines recommend a stepwise evaluation of the patient that integrates clinical risk factors and test results with the estimated stress of the planned surgical procedure and the risks involved with the discontinuation of drugs.

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Cardiology

Endorsed by cardiac societies

Armenian Cardiologists Association , Austrian Society of Cardiology , Association of Cardiologists of Bosnia & Herzegovina , British Cardiovascular Society , Bulgarian Society of Cardiology , Croatian Cardiac Society , Czech Society of Cardiology , Danish Society of Cardiology , Estonian Society of Cardiology , Egyptian Society of Cardiology , Finnish Cardiac Society , French Society of Cardiology , German Cardiac Society , Hellenic Society of Cardiology , Hungarian Society of Cardiology , Italian Federation of Cardiology , Association of Cardiologists of Kazakhstan , Latvian Society of Cardiology , Luxembourg Society of Cardiology , Lithuanian Society of Cardiology , Maltese Cardiac Society , Norwegian Society of Cardiology , Polish Cardiac Society , Portuguese Society of Cardiology , Cardiology Society of Serbia , Slovak Society of Cardiology , Spanish Society of Cardiology , Swiss Society of Cardiology , Turkish Society of Cardiology

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