title: [Internal medicine consultation].
abstract: Preoperative medical consultation may decrease the risk of surgery in multimorbid patients by an exact preoperative evaluation and pretreatment of all cardiopulmonary, hematologic and metabolic diseases. Excellent teamwork among internists, anaesthesiologists and surgeons is necessary. The increase in specialization in surgical and conservative medicine has produced a variety of alternative diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and so there should be a consensus as to which diagnostic and therapeutic procedure is best.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Innere Medizin, Bundeswehrkrankenhaus Ulm, Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Nobbe
mesh_terms: D003933:Diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D007388:Internal Medicine; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000517:prevention & control; D012307:Risk Factors; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative
vernacular_title: Internistisches Konsil.