ISSN: 2155-6148
Department of Anaesthesiology, RVM Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Center, Laxmakkapally, Siddipet District, Telangana, India
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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