Clinical Research Directory

Inclusion Criteria: * Patient eligible for routine PMI-screening * Patient requiring hospitalisation with ≥ 2 overnight stays after surgery * Age ≥ 40 years to ≤ 85 AND history of coronary artery disease (CAD), peripheral artery disease (PAD), cerebrovascular disease/stroke, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM), or chronic heart failure (CHF) * Elective surgery * Patients undergoing orthopaedic, traumatology, vascular, spinal, thoracic, neurosurgical, urological or visceral surgery * Patient consent available Exclusion Criteria: * Patient's refusal * Heart surgery, cardiac arrest, acute mycardial infarction (AMI), cardiac valve intervention, or cardiac catheter ablation within 14 days prior to surgery OR involvement of heart surgery at index surgery OR surgery planned on cardiopulmonary bypass * Patients undergoing plastic/reconstructive, ophthalmologic, dental, hand surgery, or ear-nose-and-throat surgery * Chronic renal failure on dialysis, unless undergoing renal transplant surgery * Moderate to severe dementia * Inclusion into study within the last year