Rahul Raveendran

Publications

• Research Article   
  Incidence of perioperative cardiac complications in patients with heart disease undergoing major oncosurgeries: A retrospective study
  Author(s): Sonali Opneja, Roopesh Sureshan*, Satheeshan Balasubramanian, Jashma Nizam, Joona Prabhakaran, Namratha Divakaran, Rahul Raveendran and Riyas M
  
  Background: Cardiac complications are the most important causes of morbidity and mortality in the first 30 days after non cardiac surgery which result in prolonged length of stay, increased health care costs and poorer prognosis. Patients with coronary artery disease undergoing non-cardiac surgery are at an increased risk for peri-operative complications such as Myocardial Infarction(MI), cardiac failure, arrhythmias, cardiac arrest and increased morbidity and mortality. Aim: To know the incidence of perioperative cardiac complications in patients with heart disease undergoing major oncosurgeries. Settings and design: A retrospective analytic study was done in a tertiary care cancer centre in 70 heart disease patients who underwent oncosurgeries to know the incidence of perioperative cardiac complications within 7 days after surgery. Heart disease which were includ.. Read More»
  

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