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Postoperative Myocardial Infarction

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A significant number of noncardiac surgical patients are at risk for postoperative myocardial infarction (PMI). PMI leads to significant mortality and morbidity and increases the health-care costs. Better understanding of perioperative surgical and patient risk factors causing PMI, understanding the disease process and presentation of PMI, newer treatment strategies, and perioperative use of beta-blockers and statins have significantly decreased the incidence of nonfatal PMI. Risk stratification, perioperative optimization of at-risk patients, and treatment of PMI are challenging and may not be the same as other myocardial infarctions.

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    Glynne D. Stanley MBChB, FRCA

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Boston University Medical Center, 88 East Newton St, Room 2817, Boston, MA, 02118, USA

    Sundara K. Rengasamy MD

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Stanley, G.D., Rengasamy, S.K. (2016). Postoperative Myocardial Infarction. In: O'Donnell, J., Nácul, F. (eds) Surgical Intensive Care Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19668-8_22

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