Anesthesia & Clinical Research
Open Access

Department of Anaesthesiology, ESIC Medical College, Sanath Nagar, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Publications

• Mini Review   
  Enhancing Anaesthesia Care: The Vital Role of Perioperative Transthoracic Echocardiography Services
  Author(s): Ayya Syama Sundar*, Ravindar Bethi and Gopinath Ramachandran
  
  With the advances in medical and surgical fields, with the evolution of surgeries for more complex situations, more frail patients, often elderly with multiple comorbidities with advanced stages of incidental diseases, are more often presenting for surgeries. Many of these patients with varying systemic comorbidities require preoperative cardiology and echocardiography evaluation as a component of preoperative assessment, risk stratification, and optimization before choosing the appropriate anaesthetic management plan and surgical approach. Frequent cardiology referrals for this task often prove to be a time-consuming and expensive process, increasing the delay in time from hospital admission to surgery and the total duration of hospital stay. Such preoperative delays indirectly increase perioperative morbidity, mortality, and patient anesthesia dissatisfa.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2155-6148.23.14.1112

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