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A flow chart depicting an easy effective preoperative cardiac risk assessment algorithm taking variables such as cardiac risk, functional capacity, type of surgery to recommend further cardiac testing in low-, intermediate-, and high-risk patients along with the final decision to proceed or not to proceed with surgery and precautions to be taken during surgery
