Abstract
Increasing numbers of elderly patients with severe co-existing medical diseases undergo major surgery. With these patients there is also an accompanying risk of age-related cardiovascular complications such as life-threatening myocardial ischaemia. We present a patient who suffered a myocardial infarction after a hemicolectomy and suffered a cardiac arrest in the recovery room. The therapeutic options available (e.g. coronary artery bypass grafting, acute percutaneous coronary angioplasty and peri-operative thrombolysis) are discussed and the successful management of the case by coronary angioplasty and stent implantation is described
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 194-197 |
Journal | Anaesthesia |
Volume | 60 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2005 |