What is your approach to checking preoperative cardiac biomarkers such as troponin and BNP?
Do you find them more helpful as predictors of perioperative risk or as a baseline to detect post-operative adverse cardiac events?
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Hospital Medicine · University of California, San Francisco
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While now recommended as a means of risk stratification for those over 65 years with cardiac risk factors across all three guidelines (AHA/ACC, CCS, ESC), we mostly reserve the use of biomarkers preoperatively for patients in whom we are on the fence for obtaining additional cardiac workup. We view ...
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Hospital Medicine · Jefferson University Physicians
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BNP can be helpful to predict operative risk and decide if further cardiac testing is needed in a higher-risk patient who is not ambulatory. It is most helpful when it is negative. For some patients needing urgent surgery, cardiac testing can delay the procedure and is detrimental. An elevated BNP c...
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