The Dilemma: Whether to Proceed or Postpone a Patient With Pyrexia at Induction of Anesthesia for Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery

Routine surgery may be postponed if a patient has high white blood cells (WBC) and/or pyrexia. However, postponement carries the risk of myocardial ischaemia or infarction in a patient having coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. Our case raises this dilemma in a high-risk patient that was fu...

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Autores principales: Bennett, Sean R, Alnouri, Muneeb, Fernandez, Jose A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
Materias:
Anesthesiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8752342/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35036186
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20343

Internet

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8752342/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35036186
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20343

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