How clinics help the preop process.

Streamlining preoperative care: role of software.

A 65-year-old man with heart disease schedules a knee arthroscopy with his orthopedic surgeon. Thirty miles away, a note pops up to notify the hospital's presurgical clinic of the impending surgery. A nurse practitioner pulls up the patient's electronic health record (EHR), where she reviews the patient's history. Comparing the history with the preop screening criteria, she can see the patient ...

Preoperative evaluation: A time-saving algorithm.

Our preop evaluation method combines the latest guidelines and tools to help you avoid unnecessary testing and complete the process in one visit.

PreOp endoscopic simulator: a PC-based immersive training system for bronchoscopy.

The high cost of simulators that offer adequate realism for training has been a major challenge for the simulation community. The cost of the computers alone has been too high for most training institutions to afford. We have met this challenge by developing the PreOp Endoscopic Simulator, our second generation of low-cost medical simulators. The PreOp system integrates multimedia, 3D graphics ...

Left ventricular function following coronary bypass surgery.

The effect of coronary artery bypass grafts on left ventricular performance was evaluated by analyzing preoperative (preop) and postoperative (postop) biplane left ventriculograms of 37 patients who were restudied at a mean of 13 months after operation. Eighty-two percent of the grafts were patent. Segmental wall shortening and segmental shortening velocities (mea Vcf) in the anterior, inferior...

Ideas for improving the preop process.