Suggested Reading

Perioperative Medicine:

Preoperative Pulmonary Risk Stratification for Noncardiothoracic Surgery: Systematic Review for the American College of Physicians
Ann Int Med, 18 April 2006 | Volume 144 Issue 8 | Pages 581-595

Strategies To Reduce Postoperative Pulmonary Complications after Noncardiothoracic Surgery: Systematic Review for the American College of Physicians
Ann Int Med, 18 April 2006 | Volume 144 Issue 8 | Pages 596-608

Risk Assessment for and Strategies To Reduce Perioperative Pulmonary Complications for Patients Undergoing Noncardiothoracic Surgery: A Guideline from the American College of Physicians
Ann Int Med, 18 April 2006 | Volume 144 Issue 8 | Pages 575-580


Further Reading:

Does This Dyspneic Patient in the Emergency Department Have Congestive Heart Failure?
JAMA Vol. 294 No. 15, October 19, 2005
A systematic review of the symptoms and signs of CHF

Preventing and Treating Thromboembolism in the 21st Century
Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine, Suppl. 1 to Vol. 72, April 2005