The aim of the preoperative medical assessment is to reduce the patient’s surgical and anesthetic perioperative morbidity or mortality. Therefore it is utmost important to understand the perioperative risks of the surgery along with the medical condition of the patient. Additionally, the invasiveness of the surgical procedure and the type of anesthetic administered is also considered. Proper consultations with appropriate medical services should be obtained to improve the patient’s health.
This article gives you an insight of preoperative evaluation of the patients undergoing surgery. Surgical procedures and administration of anesthesia are associated with a response that is proportional to the extent of an injury, time of operation, amount of intraoperative blood loss and degree of postoperative pain. For a safe and effectual surgical and anaesthetic procedure, an optimised patient is…
