title: [Problems of general surgery in the cardiosurgical patient].
abstract: The preoperative problem is analysed with proposal of a heart risk index table and assessment of the manifold problems involved. Stress is thenn laid on the importance of careful postoperative treatment, establishing rules of surgical and resuscitatory behaviour to be followed in the general surgery of the heart patient. These rules of behaviour permit prevention of surgical complications, which are fully illustrated. Particular attention is paid to the selection of those conditions of pertinence to general surgery which have treatment of choice prior to heart surgery. Personal experience of 75 general surgery operations between 1977 and 1979 in the Villa Pia Clinic is then reviewed.
mesh_terms: D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D006331:Heart Diseases; D006801:Humans; D011182:Postoperative Care; D011300:Preoperative Care; D012306:Risk; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative
vernacular_title: I problemi della chirurgia generale nel paziente cardiochirurgico.