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Cardiopulmonary Testing Before Lung Resection: What Are Thoracic Surgeons Doing?

Thursday, October 31, 2019

Submitted by

Emily Robinson

Source

Source Name: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Source URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2019.04.057

Author(s)

James M. Clark, Angelica S. Marrufo, Benjamin D. Kozower, Daniel J. Tancredi, Miriam Nuño, David T. Cooke, Brad H. Pollock, Patrick S. Romano, Lisa M. Brown

Compliance with American College of Chest Physicians guidelines for physiologic evaluation of lung resection patients was 50% or better for only half the physicians. The frequency of individualizing risk thresholds based on surgical approach increased according to the number of years in practice. Cardiothoracic surgeons more frequently referred all patients for cardiovascular risk assessment by a cardiologist than did thoracic surgeons (17.6% vs 2.4%).