The Preoperative Clinic at Children's Hospital Boston has established a unique
collaborative approach to ensure that individualized perioperative plans of care are created …

Comprehensive perioperative care: Patient assessment, teaching, documentation t St Luke's
Medical Center in Milwaukee, A we use the nursing process steps (ie, assessment …

Case management (CM) is a health care model implemented to reduce health care costs
while improving the quality of patient outcomes. Using a CM framework, a preoperative …

Preoperative health assessment and patient education are essential to a successful surgical
outcome. Pediatric patients provide a unique challenge in that education must focus on both …

Objectives The anesthesia preoperative screening and evaluation of a patient prior to
surgery is a critical element in the safe and effective delivery of anesthesia care. In this era of …

OBJECTIVES At the conclusion of this chapter, the reader will be able to do the following:
List three options available for conducting preoperative assessments and interviews. Identify …

Surgery delays and cancellations are costly to hospitals and emotionally distressful to
patients. At Sarasota (Fla) Memorial Hospital, staff members developed a critical pathway …

Preoperative evaluation continues to be a critical portion of our activities as
anesthesiologists. The anesthesia community has taken the lead in defining the optimal and …

January 2018• Volume 126• Number 1 www. anesthesia-analgesia. org 17 aids to be
helpful, the content needs to be kept up to date. 15 In addition, it demonstrated that designs …

Quality care of the patient cannot be assured without a nursing care plan. Assessment by the
operating room nurse is the first step of a systematic method for planning and providing …