Routine preoperative investigations Check local hospital policy. • Urinalysis • ECG • All patients: for sugar, blood and protein • Age> 50 years • History of heart disease, hypertension or chronic lung disease • A normal previous trace within 1 year is acceptable unless there is a recent cardiac history
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Routine preoperative investigations Check local hospital policy.
• Urinalysis
• ECG
• All patients: for sugar, blood and protein
• Age> 50 years• History of heart disease,
hypertension or chronic lung disease
• A normal previous trace within 1 year is acceptable unless there is a recent cardiac history
• FBC
• Blood urea, electrolytes and creatinine
• Males > 40 years • All females• All major surgery
• Whenever anemia is suspected
• Age >50 years
• All major surgery Diuretic drugs
• Suspected renal disease
• Blood glucose
• Coagulation screen
• Sickle cell test
• Diabetic patients• Glycosuria• Age > 50 years
• History of bleeding tendency (some units measure before major surgery)
• Black patients with unknown sickle status. If positive then hemoglobin electrophoresis should be performed
• Pregnancy test
• Chest radiograph
• whenever there is any chance of pregnancy
• Not routine• Acute cardiac of chest
disease• Chronic cardiac or chest
disease that has worsened in the last year
• Risk of pulmonary TB (recent arrival from the developing world or immunocompromis)
• Malignant diseases
Consent
• All competent patients have to give or with hold consent for treatment or examination
• To obtain consent , the patient must be given sufficient details and information about the procedure to enable proper decision to be taken
• In an emergency, consent is not necessary for life-saving procedures
•Risk
In order to appreciate risk the patient needs to be told of the likelihood of the complication occurring and this should be put into context by using an analogy from everyday life
• Negligible risk frequency less than 1:1000 000, i.e. the risk of dying from lightening strike.
• Minimum risk: frequency 1: 100 000-1000 000, i.e. the risk of dying on the railways
• Very low risk: frequency 1: 10 000-1:100 000 i.e. the annual risk of dying of traffic accident at home or at work
• Low risk: frequency 1-1000-10 000, i.e. the annual risk of dying in a road traffic accident.
• Moderate risk: frequency 1: 100 to 1:1000 i.e. the risk of death from natural causes for patients over 40 within the next year
• High risk : frequency greater than 1: 100 the risk of developing diarrhea after antibiotics
In addition to the frequency of the risk, the
seriousness must be considered
Competence
Adult patients who are able to make decision on their own about their treatment are considered competent. This means that they must be capable of understanding and remembering the information given about the procedure, and be able to weigh up the risks and benefits to arrive at a balanced choice. For competent patients, no other person can consent or refuse treatment on their behalf
Restricted consent
• Some patients may consent to treatment in general, but refuse consent for certain aspects of the treatment, e.g. Jehovah's Witness patients who refuse blood transfusion
• The patient's wishes must be respected
ResearchAll clinical research requires Research Ethics Committee approval
TeachingStudents must not take part in clinical procedures
without the patients consent
DocumentationThe anesthetic plan discussed and agreed with the
patient should be documented including the risks which have been explained
Physical status classification of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA)
• Physical Status
Classification
PS-1
• Description
a normal healthy patient
• PS-2 • A patient with mild systemic disease that results in no functional limitation Examples: Hypertension. Diabetes mellitus, chronic bronchitis. Morbid obesity, extremes of age
• PS-3 • A patient with severe systemic disease that results in functional limitation