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Routine preoperative chest X-rays

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687 patients presenting for routine and emergency anaesthesia were studied. 297 were found to have a chest X-ray. Abnormalities on chest X-ray were scattered amongst most age groups. Patients in American Society of Anaesthesiologists grade I were found to have abnormalities in only 4% of cases, and the abnormalities were of no anaesthetic significance. The incidence of abnormalities increased to 25% in grade II, 52% in grade III and 81% in grades IV and V. Patients in American Society of Anaesthesiologists grades III, IV and V, and those suffering from trauma should have a preoperative chest X-ray.

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  1. Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast

    G. J. McCleane

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McCleane, G.J. Routine preoperative chest X-rays. I.J.M.S. 158, 67–68 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02942145

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