Show Notes
Send us Fan Mail In the November 2021 podcast, Pooja Shah speaks to Dr Simon Howell about this month’s BJA Education Editor’s choice article: Preoperative hypertension: perioperative implications and management. We discuss the latest guidelines and evidence and how to tackle the perennial question of whether or not to cancel surgery for a patient whose preoperative blood pressure is > 180/110 mmHg.
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