Troponin T level and mortality risk after noncardiac surgery: practical implications of the VISION study.

This review article presents the current state of knowledge about major perioperative cardiovascular complications in noncardiac surgery patients and the role of the currently available stratification models and biomarkers in risk prediction. The authors discuss a recent paper presented by the VISION Investigators in the June edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association and its practical implications in day-to-day perioperative …