The 2024 ACC/AHA guidelines update perioperative cardiovascular management before noncardiac surgery, introducing a modified algorithm for risk assessment and judicious use of preoperative testing.
This overview summarizes the 2024 ACC/AHA guidelines on perioperative cardiovascular management for noncardiac surgery, highlighting updates in risk assessment and perioperative care.
In September 2024, the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association updated their 2014 guidelines on perioperative cardiovascular evaluation and management of patients undergoing noncardiac surgery. This comprehensive document reinforces many previous recommendations and provides new evidence and expert opinion that is useful to the perioperative team, including information on risk assessment of ischemic heart disease and associated medical conditions, perioperative medications, cardiac devices, anesthesia, and monitoring. This overview summarizes the major concepts and changes in the new guidelines.
Steven L. Cohn (2025) conducted a review in Noncardiac surgery. 2024 ACC/AHA perioperative cardiovascular management guidelines was evaluated. The 2024 ACC/AHA guidelines update perioperative cardiovascular management before noncardiac surgery, introducing a modified algorithm for risk assessment and judicious use of preoperative testing.
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