Preoperative Anesthesia Consultation System for Patients with Medical Problems.

A Case of Undiagnosed Hyperthyroidism Detected in Preoperative Anesthesia Consultation

A Case of Undiagnosed Hyperthyroidism Detected in Preoperative Anesthesia Consultation

A Database Model for Medical Consultation

The database model presented in this paper is suitable for application in which queries may require non-crisp references to certain attributes. The data item (attribute) values may be crisp or fuzzy. For instance, such adjectives as 'high' or 'normal' may be attribute values for the attribute blood pressure. A disease or a condition can be described by a number of symptoms which may be crisp al...

Outcomes and processes of care related to preoperative medical consultation.

BACKGROUND Preoperative consultations by internal medicine physicians facilitate documentation of comorbid disease, optimization of medical conditions, risk stratification, and initiation of interventions intended to reduce risk. Nonetheless, the impact of these consultations, which may be performed by general internists or specialists, on outcomes is unclear. METHODS We used population-based...

Preoperative cardiology consultation.

In a 1998 survey of New York metropolitan area anesthesiologists, surgeons, and cardiologists, the three specialties were in general agreement that important purposes of a cardiology consultation are to treat an inadequately treated cardiac condition before surgery (e.g., unstable angina or congestive heart failure [CHF]), to provide data to use in anesthesia management (e.g., ischemic threshol...