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British Journal of Anaesthesia 2004 93(5):745-746; doi:10.1093/bja/aeh623
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© The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia 2004

CORRESPONDENCE

Perioperative cardiac risk

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Editor—I read the article by Howell, Sear and Foëx1 with great interest. As a review it will be widely read and quoted, and may have a major impact on clinical practice. It is therefore all the more unfortunate that the section entitled ‘Historical background’ contains a number of errors of quotation; such that a current or future reader might conclude that the data described in my original paper,2 and thus the interpretations and conclusions drawn from them, were incorrect.

The first error concerns the number of patients in the study:2 the total number should be 23, not 34 as quoted. The second error is more serious in that Howell and colleagues claim that ‘fifteen of the patients were classified as normotensive, although by current standards all of their control patients would now be considered to be hypertensive’. The data in Table V of my original paper2 clearly show that Group . . . [Full Text of this Article]

C. Prys-Roberts

Bristol, UK

S. Howell

Leeds, UK


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