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Intensive Care Medicine

Tutorial 210

Acute Coronary Syndrome

Katrina Webster, Staff Specialist Anaesthetist

Royal Hobart Hospital, Tasmania, Australia

Correspondence to katrina.webster@dhhs.tas.gov.au

24 TH JANUARY 2011

Abstract

Patients with ACS have a high perioperative risk for MI

The anaesthetist must carefully assess and optimise ACS patients prior to surgery

Intraoperative MI requires prompt management to prevent further myocardial damage or patient death

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