Specific preoperative clinical factors, including angina, previous MI, and ECG signs of ischemia, can identify patients at increased risk for perioperative myocardial infarction and cardiac death during noncardiac surgery.
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May aid preoperative cardiac risk stratification in noncardiac surgery; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before practice change.
Shah et al. (1990) studied this question.
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