Emphasizes the need for heavy premedication and sufficiently deep anaesthesia in stress-compromised patients to prevent severe bradycardia and cardiac arrest associated with Takotsubo cardiomyopathy.
Takotsubo cardiomyopathy has an excellent long-term prognosis and nearly all patients have full recovery of left ventricular function. We emphasize the importance of heavy premedication by stress compromised patients and the need of sufficiently deep anaesthesia and analgesia during surgeries.
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