What is Necessary from the Surgery/Primary Care Clinics for a Work-up?
First of all, the Surgery Clinic is responsible for explaining the surgical procedure to the patient. The Clinic should also explain the ABSOLUTE necessity of an escort home for Outpatients (who have ANY sedation, G/A, Bier block or other regional anesthesia), as well as the usual need for a caretaker overnight post-op (except for minor procedures in healthy patients when approved ahead of time). The Clinics should NEVER promise that a procedure will be done at a certain time on the day of surgery since schedules always change up to the last day before surgery. Any such unfulfilled promise is a recipe for patient dissatisfaction! For a patient to be properly evaluated in the Anesthesiology Preoperative Clinic, the following basic information should be assembled and available to the PAC at the time of the visit: The proposed procedure and the surgeon’s name. Whether the procedure is planned as FDS or OP , and the requested/suggested type of anesthesia (either local + sedation & monitori
