Routine preoperative tests (such as electrocardiograms and blood tests) before low risk surgery do not prevent adverse events during or after surgery Unnecessary testing is costly and can lead to ...

What is the aim of this review? The aim of this Cochrane Review was to determine whether it is necessary to perform preoperative medical testing before cataract surgery. Cataract surgery is practiced ...

Background: There is concern about increasing utilization of low-value health care services, including preoperative testing for low-risk surgical procedures. We investigated temporal trends, ...

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In up to 2% of all pregnancies, the need for general anesthesia in a nonobstetrical surgery arises. Surgery on a pregnant woman may have significant implications for the fetus, patient, physician and ...

National clinician societies in Canada representing anesthesiologists, cardiologists, surgeons, and transfusion specialists recommend not performing regular preoperative testing for healthy patients ...

1 Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. 2 Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana.

Background Despite limited indications, preoperative stress testing is often used prior to non-cardiac surgery. Patient-level analyses of stress testing and outcomes are limited by case mix and ...

Cataract surgery is practiced widely, and substantial resources are committed to an increasing cataract surgical rate in low- and middle-income countries. With the current volume of cataract surgery ...

Patients facing relatively simple outpatient surgeries are nonetheless being told to undergo a number of preoperative tests that just aren't necessary, a new study reports. Before undergoing surgery, ...

Postoperative complications were not linked with cataract versus noncataract surgery. Preoperative testing before general ophthalmologic surgery does not significantly affect outcomes and ...

Sigmund AE, Stevens ER, Blitz JD, Ladapo JA. This was a retrospective analysis of nationally representative data from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey and National Hospital Ambulatory ...