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Preoperative Evaluation: Still Crucial in a Changing Medical Landscape
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Same-day surgery and morning admissions for surgical procedures in the hospital have certainly changed the way we evaluate patients for anesthesia. Despite radical changes in our practice we must not lose sight of the value of and reasons for a preoperative evaluation of the patient.
The basic reasons for a preoperative evaluation have remained the same: to reduce the risks associated with surgery and anesthesia, enhance the quality of perioperative care, restore the patient to the hig...
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Preoperative Evaluation: Still Crucial in a Changing Medical Landscape
AANA Journal
; Same-day surgery and morning admissions for surgical procedures in the hospital have certainly changed the way we evaluate patients for anesthesia. Despite radical changes in our practice we must not lose sight of the value of and reasons for a preoperative evaluation of the patient. The basic
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Anesthesia Provider Pays $12.1 Million for Airway Obstruction
AANA Journal
; Case Report: A 14-yearold boy broke his arm playing football. He had a full stomach, so the required operation was delayed until the next morning when it was successfully preformed under general anesthesia. In the postanesthesia care unit (PACU) the anesthesia provider "briefly evaluated" the boy
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Problems in Anesthesia: Preoperative Evaluation in an Era of Cost Containment
Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
; Problems in Anesthesia: Preoperative Evaluation in an Era of Cost Containment Volume 9, Number 2 ISBN: 0889-4698 Lee A. Fleisher and Donald S. Prough Lippincott-Raven, Philadelphia, 1997, 127 pp. $38.00 This monograph examines the most common medical problems, as encountered by anesthesiologists,
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Anesthesia Provider Wins but Plaintiff still Receives $24,084,600!
AANA Journal
; A 35-year-old woman with a history of severe depression, suicide attempts, and taking multiple psychiatric drugs, was admitted for a cesarean-section. The anesthesia provider administered an epidural that was left in place for postoperative pain management. The intraoperative and postanesthesia
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PRE-OPportunity Knocks: A Different Way to Think About the Preoperative Evaluation.
American Family Physician
; As family physicians, we commonly use the annual general assessment of the patient to address preventive health issues. Ideally, we would also reconsider the patient's medical conditions, medications and other functional issues at this time. Often, the visit is too short to address everything. For
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Diabetes, blood glucose and preoperative evaluation
Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
; The paper by Power and Thackray' is further proof of the value in evidence-based anaesthesia applied to preoperative evaluation. We believe another test can be removed from the preoperative assessment process-measurement of blood glucose in patients with diagnosed diabetes. This test has been
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PET, PET/CT, and MR Imaging in Charcot Neuroarthropathy
The Journal of Nuclear Medicine
; PET, hybrid PET/CT, and MR imaging were compared in the preoperative evaluation of diabetics with Charcot foot deformities in a study published in the December issue of Foot and Ankle International (2004; 25:890-895) by Hopfner et al. from the Justus-liebig University of Giessen (Germany). The
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Problems in Anesthesia--Preoperative Evaluation in an Era of Cost Containment
Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
; Problems in Anesthesia-Preoperative Evaluation in an Era of Cost Containment. L. A. Fleischer, D. S. Prough; Lippincott-Raven, 227 East Washington Square, Philadelphia, PA19106-3780, U.S.A.; Personal Subscription to Problems in Anesthesia, $U.S.137.00; 180 x 260 mm; pp. 276. This is a multi-author
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Preoperative evaluation of the elderly patient.
American Family Physician
; Preoperative Evaluation of the Elderly Patient Elderly patients are more likely to require surgery and to experience surgical complications than are younger patients. However, age should not be the sole factor in the decision for or against surgery. The surgical risk can be estimated on the basis
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MRI vs. angiography in aortic aneurysms. (magnetic resonance imaging)
American Family Physician
; MRI vs. Angiography in Aortic Aneurysms Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has proved to be an important tool in the evaluation of certain central nervous system conditions and of disorders in the pelvis. Because of the ability of MRI to delineate areas of blood flow, arteries and veins can be shown
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