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Anaerobic threshold, is it a magic number to determine fitness for surgery?

The use of cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) to evaluate cardiac and respiratory function was pioneered as part of preoperative assessment in the mid 1990s. Surgical procedures have changed since then. The patient population may have aged; however, the physiology has remained the same. The use...

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Autor principal: Older, Paul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3964343/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24472514
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2047-0525-2-2