Virginia Apgar Professor of Anesthesiology | Columbia Anesth | @@SOAPHQ Past President |#ObAnes #Opioids #MaternalHealth | Editor in Chief of @IJOA_journal
Sep 26, 2019 • 6 tweets • 6 min read
#METS for cardiac risk stratification
➡️ decision making based on patients functional capacity (fitness)
Actually poor correlation between patient self reported exercise capacity & objective testing results (R=0.31) or METS vs cardiac complications!
What about biomarkers for fitness?!!
➡️ Natriuretic peptides