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Myocardial Dysfunction in the Perioperative Period

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Anaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine — A.P.I.C.E.

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Perioperative myocardial dysfunction is an important cause of post-operative mortality and morbidity, due to myocardial infarction and sudden death and also due to changes in vital organ perfusion caused by myocardial failure. This contribution will describe methods of pre-operative risk stratification that can be used to identify patients at risk of post-operative myocardial dysfunction and will describe what goes wrong with myocardial function during the perioperative period. Furthermore it will discuss techniques and treatment that can be employed to prevent post-operative myocardial dysfunction, and the consequences of this.

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Boyd, O.F. (2002). Myocardial Dysfunction in the Perioperative Period. In: Gullo, A. (eds) Anaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine — A.P.I.C.E.. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2099-3_8

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