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Should patients routinely be visited by the anaesthetist once they have left the recovery area?
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Article
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British Journal of Hospital Medicine; October 2010, Vol. 71 Issue: 10 p598-598, 1p
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17508460; 17597390
Abstract
An anaesthetic preoperative assessment for all patients is the standard of care in UK hospitals, but guidance from the Royal College of Anaesthetists (Curran and Rowbotham, 2009) states that a postoperative visit by an anaesthetist is only recommended in certain circumstances, such as those patients graded American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status 3, 4 or 5, or patients discharged from recovery with invasive monitoring in situ. There are a number of potential advantages of a routine postoperative visit by the anaesthetist, so why is this not performed? This article examines the arguments for and against a routine postoperative visit by an anaesthetist.