Preoperative evaluation is a process of clinical assessment that precedes the delivery of anesthesia care for surgery and non-surgical procedures.
Preoperative care is the preparation and management of a patient prior to surgery. It includes both physical and psychological preparation. Patients who are physically and psychologically prepared for surgery tend to have better surgical outcomes.
Preoperative nursing care forms the foundation of safe surgical outcomes. This critical phase begins when surgery is scheduled and continues until the patient enters the operating room.
Preoperative care is the preparation and management of a client during the preoperative period, which is the time period between the decision to perform a surgery and the beginning of the surgical procedure.
This guide is intended as a clinical resource for clinicians performing preoperative evaluations. The author has done his best to assure the information is current and based upon the available evidence.
Key Takeaways The perioperative period includes the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative phases of surgery. The preoperative phase starts with the decision to have surgery and ends when the patient enters the surgery room.
SPAQI seeks to provide guidance on perioperative medication management that synthesizes available literature with expert consensus. The aim of this Consensus Statement is to provide practical guidance on the preoperative management of endocrine, hormonal, and urologic medications.
Clinicians are often asked to evaluate a patient prior to surgery. The medical consultant may be seeing the patient at the request of the surgeon or may be the primary care clinician assessing the patient prior to consideration of a surgical referral.