title: Preoperative assessment: an anesthesiologist's perspective.
abstract: Advances in anesthesia and surgery have made it so that almost any patient with a resectable lung malignancy is now an operative candidate given a full understanding of the risks and after appropriate investigation. This situation necessitates a change in the paradigm that anesthesiologists use for preoperative assessment. Understanding and stratifying the perioperative risks allows the anesthesiologist to develop a systematic focused approach to these patients at the time of the initial contact and immediately before induction, which can be used to guide anesthetic management.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesia, University of Toronto, and The University Health Network, Toronto General Hospital, 3EN 200 Elizabeth Street, Toronto, ON, Canada, M5G 2C4. peter.slinger@uhn.on.ca
authors.forename: Peter D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Slinger
authors.forename: Michael R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Johnston
mesh_terms: D000758:Anesthesia; D006801:Humans; D007431:Intraoperative Complications / Q000517:prevention & control; D011300:Preoperative Care; D012129:Respiratory Function Tests; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors