Patients' inability to perform a preoperative cardiopulmonary exercise test or demonstrate an anaerobic threshold is associated with inferior outcomes after major colorectal surgery

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
8933444	British Journal of Anaesthesia	2013	5 Pages	PDF

Abstract

Patients' inability to perform CPET is associated with inferior outcomes after major colorectal surgery. Future studies evaluating CPET in risk assessment for major surgery should report outcomes for this subgroup.

Keywords

Risk assessment Exercise test General surgery length of stay preoperative care Mortality

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Patients' inability to perform a preoperative cardiopulmonary exercise test or demonstrate an anaerobic threshold is associated with inferior outcomes after major colorectal surgery

Authors

C.W. Lai, G Minto, C.P. Challand, K.B. Hosie, J.R. Sneyd, S Creanor, R.A. Struthers,