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The anaesthesiologist has a key role in the preoperative clinical evaluation of the surgical patient. This evaluation considers the type of patient and the type of surgery the patient will undergo. Over the last 10 years, thanks to the progress of diagnostic and surgical techniques and to the technological implementation, surgery has undergone significant changes that can be summarized in a particular boost towards less invasive techniques, such as robotic surgery, and wider indications than in the past. But even the surgical patient has changed over time. In fact, the population is getting older, and the physiology of aging is accompanied by an increase in morbidity, with many older patients who are candidates for surgery and often with cardiovascular disease. Each year an increasing number of elderly patients with cardiovascular disease undergo noncardiac surgery.
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Guarracino, F., Brizzi, G., Baldassarri, R. (2018). The Assessment of the Risk for Cardiac Event After Noncardiac Surgery. In: Chiumello, D. (eds) Practical Trends in Anesthesia and Intensive Care 2017. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61325-3_2
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