The [b]European Union[/b] has announced updated guidelines designed to improve peri-operative cardiac risk management in non-cardiac surgery patients. The [b]2014 ESC/ESA Guidelines[/b] cover the entire field including surgical risk assessment, pre-operative evaluation, and optimal peri-operative management, and will also address relevant cardiological and anaesthesiological issues in patients with specific cardiac diseases and common co-morbidities who are scheduled to undergo non-cardiac surgery.
[link url=http://www.escardio.org/about/press/press-releases/pr-14/Pages/2014-ESC-ESA-Guidelines-non-cardiac-surgery-cardiovascular-assessment-management.aspx?hit=dontmiss]European Society of Cardiology press release[/link]
[link url=http://eurheartj.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/07/28/eurheartj.ehu282.extract]New Guidelines[/link]