Criteria for Evaluating Patients with COPD Prior to General Anesthesia
Purpose: | To evaluate a patient with COPD prior to anesthesia and surgery using the criteria of Milledge and Nunn. |
Specialty: | Pulmonology & Critical Care General Surgery & Anesthesiology |
Objective: | risk factors, complications, surgery |
ICD-10: | J44.9 |
Description: | Milledge and Nunn evaluated patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) prior to general anesthesia and surgery. They used arterial blood gases to help identify patients who require prolonged post-operative ventilatory support. The authors are from Northwick Park Hospital in Middlesex, England. |
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