BACKGROUND: Pre-anesthesia evaluation (PAE) (also called pre-anesthetic assessment or pre-anesthesia checkup) is a detailed medical checkup and laboratory investigation performed by the anesthesiologist before a surgical procedure, to assess the patient’s physical condition and any other medical illnesses or diseases the patient might be suffering from. Dedicated outpatient PAE clinics are a fairly latest phenomenon, and information is thin from the developing world. The role of the PAE clinic is to evaluate all patients for surgical procedures requiring general or regional anesthesia before hospital admission, whether for day‑care surgical procedures or for inpatient surgical procedures.
Optimal use of PAE clinic avoids unnecessary postponements, suboptimal utilization of operation theater, and personnel and parental time. AIMS: The aim of this study was to describe the methods,…
