Prognostic role of a preoperative troponin elevation in patients undergoing urgent or emergency noncardiac surgery: a pooled analysis
300 million surgeries are performed worldwide each year. 10% are urgent or emergency surgeries, with a 3-fold higher mortality than elective procedures. Preoperative troponin elevation is a well-established marker of risk in elective surgery, but prognostic value in urgent/emergency surgeries remains poorly defin...