Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-x5gtn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-05-01T14:39:59.162Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Chapter 8 - Preoperative Patient Preparation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2018

By
Jaideep J. Pandit
Edited by
Jaideep J. Pandit
Jaideep J. Pandit
Affiliation:
Oxford University Hospitals
Get access

Summary

A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Chapter
Information
Practical Operating Theatre Management
Measuring and Improving Performance and Patient Experience
 , pp. 114 - 123
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Asimakopoulos, G, Harrison, R, Magnussen, PA. 1998. Preadmission clinic in an orthopaedic department: evaluation over a 6-month period. Journal of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 43: 178–81.Google Scholar
Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland. 1998. Risk Management. London: The Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland.Google Scholar
Association of Anaesthetists. 2010. Pre-operative Assessment and Patient Preparation: The Role of the Anaesthetist. London: The Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland.Google Scholar
Association of Anaesthetists. 2010. The Anaesthesia Team. London: The Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland.Google Scholar
Association of Anaesthetists. 2017. Consent for Anaesthesia. London: The Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland.Google Scholar
Audit Commission. 1997. Anaesthesia under Examination. Abingdon, UK: Audit Commission Publications.Google Scholar
Audit Commission. 2003. Waiting for Elective Admission: Review of National Findings. London: CW Print Group.Google Scholar
Barnes, PK, Emerson, PA, Hajnal, S, Radford, WJP, Congleton, J. 2000. Influence of an anaesthetist on nurse led, computer-based, pre-operative assessment. Anaesthesia 55: 576–80.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Basu, S, Babajee, P, Selvachandran, SN, Cade, D. 2001. Impact of questionnaires and telephone screening on attendance for ambulatory surgery. Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 83: 329–31.Google Scholar
Dix, P, Howell, S. 2001. Survey of cancellation rate of hypertensive patients undergoing anaesthesia and elective surgery. British Journal of Anaesthesia 86: 789–93.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Down, MP, Wong, DT, McGuire, GP. 1998. The anaesthesia consult clinic: does it matter which anaesthetist sees the patient? Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia 45: 802–8.Google Scholar
Eagle, KA, Berger, PB, Calkins, H, et al. 2002. ACC/AHA Guideline Update for Perioperative Cardiovascular Evaluation for Noncardiac Surgery – Executive Summary: A report of the ACC/AHA task force on practice guidelines (Committee to Update the 1996 Guidelines on Perioperative Cardiovascular Evaluation for Noncardiac Surgery). Journal of the American College of Cardiology 39: 542–53.Google Scholar
Fischer, SP. 1996. Development and effectiveness of an anesthesia preoperative evaluation clinic in a teaching hospital. Anesthesiology 85: 196–206.Google Scholar
Hardy, JJ, O’Brien, SV, Furlong, NJ. 2001. Information given to patients before appointments and its effect on nonattendance rate. British Medical Journal 323: 1298–300.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Katz, RI, Barnhart, JM, Ho, G, Hersch, D, Dayan, SS, Keehn, L. 1998. A survey on the intended purposes and perceived utility of preoperative cardiology consultations. Anesthesia and Analgesia 87: 830–6.Google Scholar
Kelion, AD, Banning, AP. 1999. Is simple clinical assessment adequate for cardiac risk stratification before elective non-cardiac surgery? Lancet 354: 1837–8.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Kleinman, B, Czinn, E, Shah, K, Sobotka, PA, Rao, TK. 1989. The value to the anesthesia – surgical care team of the preoperative cardiac consultation. Journal of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia 3: 682–7.Google Scholar
Koay, CB, Marks, NJ. 1996. A nurse-led preadmission clinic for elective ENT surgery: the first 8 months. Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 78: 15–19.Google ScholarPubMed
Lee, TH, Marcantonio, ER, Mangione, CM, et al. 1999. Derivation and prospective validation of a simple index for prediction of cardiac risk of major noncardiac surgery. Circulation 100: 1043–9.Google Scholar
Mangano, DT, Browner, WS, Hollenberg, M, et al. 1990. Association of perioperative myocardial ischemia with cardiac morbidity and mortality in men undergoing noncardiac surgery. New England Journal of Medicine 323: 1781–8.Google Scholar
Mangano, DT, Wong, MG, London, MJ, Tubau, JF, Rapp, JA. 1991. Perioperative myocardial ischemia in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery – II: incidence and severity during the 1st week after surgery. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 17: 851–7.Google Scholar
National Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Deaths. 2002. Functioning as a Team? The 2002 Report of the National Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Deaths. London: The Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland.Google Scholar
Pandit, JJ. 2004. Maximising the benefit from pre-operative cardiac evaluation for elective, non-cardiac surgery. British Journal of Cardiology 11: 468–473.Google Scholar
Pandit, MJ, MacKenzie, IZ. 1999. Patient satisfaction in gynaecological outpatient attendances. Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 19: 511–5.Google Scholar
Park, KW. 2003. Preoperative cardiology consultation. Anesthesiology 98: 754–62.Google Scholar
Poldermans, D, Boersma, E, Bax, JJ, et al. 2001. Dutch Echocardiographic Cardiac Risk Evaluation Applying Stress Echocardiography Study Group. Bisoprolol reduces cardiac death and myocardial infarction in high-risk patients as long as 2 years after successful major vascular surgery. European Heart Journal 22: 1353–825.Google Scholar
Rai, M, Pandit, JJ. 2003. Day of surgery cancellations after nurse-led pre-assessment in an elective surgical centre: the first 2 years. Anaesthesia 58: 684–711.Google Scholar
Reed, M, Wright, S, Armitage, F. 1997. Nurse led general surgical preoperative assessment clinic. Journal of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 42: 310–3.Google Scholar
Royal College of Surgeons of England. 1992. Guidelines for Day Case Surgery (Revised Edition). London: The Royal College of Surgeons of England.Google Scholar
Stinson, DK. 2003. An abbreviation of the ACC/AHA algorithm for perioperative cardiovascular evaluation for noncardiac surgery. Anesthesia and Analgesia 97: 295–6.Google Scholar
Vaghadia, H, Fowler, C. 1999. Can nurses screen all outpatients? Performance of a nurse-based model. Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia 46: 1117–21.Google Scholar
van Klei, WA, Moons, KGM, Rutten, CLG, et al. 2002. The effect of outpatient preoperative evaluation of hospital inpatients on cancellation of surgery and length of hospital stay. Anesthesia and Analgesia 94: 644–9.Google Scholar
Vicenzi, MN, Ribitsch, D, Luha, O, Klein, W, Metzler, H. 2001. Coronary artery stenting before noncardiac surgery: more threat than safety? Anesthesiology 94: 367–8.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Wallace, A, Layug, EI, Tateo, I, et al. 1998. Prophylactic atenolol reduces postoperative myocardial ischemia. Anesthesiology 88: 7–17.Google Scholar
West, R, Galasko, CSB. 1995. Medical audit. The role of an orthopaedic preoperative clinic. Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 77(Suppl): 134–5.Google Scholar
Wijeysundera, DN, Duncan, D, Nkonde-Price, C, Virani, SS, Washam, JB, Fleischmann, KE, Fleisher, LA. 2014. Perioperative beta blockade in noncardiac surgery: a systematic review for the 2014 ACC/AHA guideline on perioperative cardiovascular evaluation and management of patients undergoing noncardiac surgery: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on practice guidelines. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 64: 2406–25.Google Scholar

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×