The Dilemma: Whether to Proceed or Postpone a Patient With Pyrexia at Induction of Anesthesia for Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery.

Routine surgery may be postponed if a patient has high white blood cells (WBC) and/or pyrexia. However, postponement carries the risk of myocardial ischaemia or infarction in a patient having coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. Our case raises this dilemma in a high-risk patient that was further compromised by acute right ventricular (RV) dysfunction.