Abstract:Background: In 2015, an Internal Medicine Perioperative Consult Team (IMPCT) was created in our hospital. We sought to determine whether they improve perioperative care without unnecessarily delaying surgery.
Objectives:To evaluate the IMPCT service on vascular surgery patient outcomes and course in hospital.Methods: Using a prospectively maintained database, we compared vascular surgery patients who received a preoperative IMPCT consult with age, sex, co-morbidities, and surgical intervention matched patients… Show more
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