CAD and Noncardiac Surgery
I. Coronary Artery Disease: What every physician needs to know. Approximately 27 million patients undergo noncardiac surgical procedures each year in the U.S. Of those patients, 50,000 will suffer from a myocardial infarction (MI) and 20,000 patients will die due to cardiovascular causes in the perioperative setting. With more than 6 million surgical procedures being…
