*Corresponding Author: Dr. Tarun Lall, Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Sawai Man Singh Medical College, Jaipur, Rajasthan. E-mail: lalltarun@hotmail.com
Perioperative myocardial ischaemia and infarction (PMI) is a major cause of short and long term morbidity and mortality is the surgical population. It is estimated that more than one half of postoperative deaths are caused by cardiac events, most of which are ischaemic in origin.
