Transforming the preoperative patient consultation: from “clearance” to “evaluation and optimization”
A guest column by the American Society of Anesthesiologists, exclusive to KevinMD.
Put yourself in the anesthesiologist’s shoes. It’s 7:00 a.m., and you’ve just finished setting up the operating room (OR). You make your way to the preoperative unit to evaluate your patient and find a prescription pad note that says, “Patient cleared for …
