2022 ESC Guidelines on cardiovascular assessment and management of patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery

The 2022 ESC guideline replaces reflexive preoperative testing with a risk-stratified pathway built on the surgical risk category, functional capacity and biomarkers, and it introduces myocardial injury after non-cardiac surgery (MINS) as a diagnosis in its own right. Much of its evidence is negative — the trials below are as important for what they stopped as for what they started.

This guideline cites 5 of the 199 landmark trials in our Cardiology register.

Source

Halvorsen S, Mehilli J, et al. Eur Heart J. 2022;43(39):3826–3924. · European Heart Journal

DOI

10.1093/eurheartj/ehac270