An ICU Preanesthesia Evaluation Form Reduces Missing Preoperative Key Information

An ICU Preanesthesia Evaluation Form Reduces Missing Preoperative Key Information.

BACKGROUND A comprehensive preoperative evaluation is critical for providing anesthetic care for patients from the intensive care unit (ICU). There has been no preoperative evaluation form specific for ICU patients that allows for a rapid and focused evaluation by anesthesia providers, including junior residents. In this study, a specific preoperative form was designed for ICU patients and eval...

Preanesthesia evaluation and reduction of preoperative care costs.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Preanesthesia evaluation (PAE) is fundamental in the preparation of a surgical patient. Among its advantages is the reduction of preoperative care costs. Although prior studies had observed this benefit, it is not clear whether it can be taken into consideration among us. The objective of the present study was to compare the costs of preoperative care performed by the ...

Practice Advisory for Preanesthesia Evaluation

P RACTICE Advisories are systematically developed reports that are intended to assist decision-making in areas of patient care. Advisories provide a synthesis and analysis of expert opinion, clinical feasibility data, open forum commentary, and consensus surveys. Practice Advisories developed by the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) are not intended as standards, guidelines, or absolu...

Practice advisory for preanesthesia evaluation: an updated report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Preanesthesia Evaluation.

Concerns about use of WhatsApp for sharing preanesthesia evaluation form among anesthesiologists

Sir, First and foremost, I applaud the team on this novel use of WhatsApp for sharing preanesthesia evaluation form among anesthesiologists.[1] In many institutes, it is a common practice where the preanesthesia checkup (PAC) is conducted in the preoperative assessment clinics, where the anesthesiologists are usually posted by rotation. In this scenario, it is quite common that the anesthesiolo...