A useful mnemonic for pre-anesthetic assessment | 合法醫療器材資訊網

由VRHKumar著作·2013·被引用7次—Aninterviewwiththepatientorguardiantoreviewmedical,anesthesia,andmedicationhistory·Anappropriatephysicalexamination·Reviewofdiagnosticdata( ...

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Assessing patients preoperatively is an important starting point to formulate effective anesthetic plan. Pre-anesthesia assessment includes a good history, a physical examination, and any indicated laboratory tests. The task of gathering necessary information and sharing that information among various providers is important. As outpatient anesthesia is becoming more popular with the majority of patients coming to the hospital shortly before undergoing a procedure, pre-anesthetic assessment has become more challenging. Moreover, there is a possibility of incomplete checkup due to anesthesiologists busy schedule or when the case is presented at odd hours. This leads to missing of certain components of assessment, which becomes apparent only when the problem arises. The Australian Incident Monitoring Study database found that 11% of reports identified inadequate or incorrect preoperative assessment (478 of 6,271) or preoperative preparation (248 of 6,271).[...