What is a preoperative evaluation?
Preoperative evaluation is the assessment of risk factors that need to be taken into account in the patient's surgical planning. It may indicate that the patient is not sufficiently stable for surgery and has to wait, or that anesthesia or surgery plans to protect the health and safety of the patient are required. This may include physical examination and blood testing together with conversations with the surgeon, anaesthesiologist and any experts that the patient can see. Information from the evaluation is entered into the patient's graph to create a permanent record. The patient may discuss the possibilities and any preferences and surgeons can perform a physical examination to check the function of the heart and lungs and assess the general level of the patient's health. The patient's history is also collected to check risk factors such as previous aderver reaction to anesthesia, a basic health problem or a family history of anesthetics problems.
If the research and history occur, the preoperative evaluation will move to determining the level of related risks. For example, patients with diabetes or high blood pressure may need to be specially addressed in the operating room. The surgeon may encounter an anaesthesiologist and the patient's primary care provider to discuss safety fears and see if surgery can move forward. In surgery, the surgery can set instructions to protect the patient during the procedure and recovery.
Underlying conditions must be well controlled before surgery, if possible. During a pre -operative evaluation, the surgeon can direct the patient to stop taking certain medicines to start taking new ones just before surgery to deal with risks. For example, people who use anticoagulants pose a risk in surgery and may have to stop therapy before surgery. Patients should make sureIT that their doctors know about any counter -counter medicines, including herbal products, as they may also have an impact on the operating room.
The aim is to clean the patient for surgery and ensure that the case meets the criteria set by the hospital or the safety institution. In some special cases, the patient can clearly need surgery despite the serious risks that would normally exclude it. Surgeons may have to obtain special consent or meet the ethics commission to discuss preoperative evaluation and gain approval before they can allow the operation.