Measurement of Exercise Tolerance before Surgery (METS) study: a protocol for an international multicentre prospective cohort study of cardiopulmonary exercise testing prior to major non-cardiac surgery

INTRODUCTION: Preoperative functional capacity is considered an important risk factor for cardiovascular and other complications of major non-cardiac surgery. Nonetheless, the usual approach for estimating preoperative functional capacity, namely doctors’ subjective assessment, may not accurately pr...

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Published in:BMJ Open
Main Authors: Wijeysundera, Duminda N, Pearse, Rupert M, Shulman, Mark A, Abbott, Tom E F, Torres, Elizabeth, Croal, Bernard L, Granton, John T, Thorpe, Kevin E, Grocott, Michael P W, Farrington, Catherine, Myles, Paul S, Cuthbertson, Brian H
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2016
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Anaesthesia
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4800144/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26969643
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010359
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