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After major non-cardiac surgery in high-risk older adults, do you routinely check post-operative troponins to screen for myocardial injury?

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Do you routinely check post-operative troponins to screen for myocardial injury?

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Hospital Medicine · University of Chicago
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I do not routinely check postoperative troponins on every older adult after major non-cardiac surgery, but I do use them selectively in patients who are at high risk for perioperative cardiovascular complications. My practice has evolved as our understanding of myocardial injury after non-cardiac su...

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Hospital Medicine · Johns Hopkins Hospital
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I actually do routinely check, although I very well may be the only one in my hospital who does.

I routinely check postoperative troponins only in a specific population: patients undergoing high-risk surgery who are themselves at elevated cardiovascular risk. In general, I use a predicted MACE risk g...

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