Is My Patient Fit for Surgery? Navigating Between the Rock of Heart Failure and the Hard Place of Semiurgent Surgery
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada (A.A.). Correspondence to: Michael M. Givertz, MD, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115. Email Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (M.M.G.). This manuscript was sent to Michael S. Kiernan, MD, MS, MBA, Guest Editor, for review by expert referees, editorial decision, and final disposition.