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Practice advisory for preanesthesia evaluation: an updated report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Preanesthesia Evaluation.

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Practice Advisories provide a synthesis and analysis of expert opinion, clinical feasibility data, open forum commentary, and consensus surveys that are intended to assist decision-making in areas of patient care.
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P RACTICE Advisories are systematically developed reports that are intended to assist decision-making in areas of patient care. Advisories provide a synthesis and analysis of expert opinion, clinical feasibility data, open forum commentary, and consensus surveys. Practice Advisories developed by the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) are not intended as standards, guidelines, or absolute requirements, and their use cannot guarantee any specific outcome. They may be adopted, modified, or rejected according to clinical needs and constraints and are not intended to replace local institutional policies. Practice Advisories are not supported by scientific literature to the same degree as standards or guidelines because of the lack of sufficient numbers of adequately controlled studies. Practice Advisories are subject to periodic update or re-

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Guidelines for Monitoring and Management of Pediatric Patients Before, During, and After Sedation for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedures.

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TL;DR: The safe sedation of children for procedures requires a systematic approach that includes no administration of sedating medication without the safety net of medical/dental supervision, careful presedation evaluation for underlying medical or surgical conditions that would place the child at increased risk from sedating medications.
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Surgical Management of Stones: American Urological Association/Endourological Society Guideline, PART I

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2009 ACCF/AHA Focused Update on Perioperative Beta Blockade Incorporated Into the ACC/AHA 2007 Guidelines on Perioperative Cardiovascular Evaluation and Care for Noncardiac Surgery

TL;DR: It is essential that the medical profession play a significant role in critically evaluating the use of diagnostic procedures and therapies as they are introduced and tested in the detection, management, or prevention of disease states.
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Analysis of Probability as an Aid in the Clinical Diagnosis of Coronary-Artery Disease

TL;DR: This work reviewed the literature to estimate the pretest likelihood of disease and the sensitivity and specificity of four diagnostic tests and integrates fundamental pretest clinical descriptors with many varying test results to summarize reproducibly and meaningfully the probability of angiographic coronary-artery disease.
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Prediction of Postoperative Pulmonary Complications in a Population-based Surgical Cohort

TL;DR: The risk index based on seven objective, easily assessed factors has excellent discriminative ability and can be used to assess individual risk of PPC and focus further research on measures to improve patient care.
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The Role of Anesthesia in Surgical Mortality

TL;DR: The role of anesthesia in contributing to surgical mortality has been studied in 33,224 patients given either spinal anesthesia or a general anesthetic to which muscle relaxants were added, and when deaths were related to the use of muscle relaxant, errors of omission or commission were always apparent.
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Preoperative Serum Albumin Level as a Predictor of Operative Mortality and Morbidity: Results From the National VA Surgical Risk Study

TL;DR: Serum albumin concentration is a relatively low-cost test that should be used more frequently as a prognostic tool to detect malnutrition and risk of adverse surgical outcomes, particularly in populations in whom comorbid conditions are relatively frequent.
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The usefulness of preoperative laboratory screening.

TL;DR: In the absence of specific indications, routine preoperative laboratory tests contribute little to patient care and could reasonably be eliminated.
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