The preoperative evaluation consists of more than the preanesthesia assessment or clearance for surgery. This preoperative patient encounter may be the patient's first examination by a physician in quite some time. Therefore, a detailed medical evaluation and comorbidity risk assessment relative to the...
For planned surgeries, a medical clearance exam is almost always an important factor.Any type of elective surgery is going to require a medical clearance exam. What does clearance for surgery mean? In the context of surgery, a medical clearance is, essentially, considered to be anauthorization f...
Finally, the patient shows up with a note from their ophthalmologist requesting certain specific blood tests, an EKG and "clearance" for the cataract procedure. If these instructions are not followed by the internist, the patient's cataract extraction will be postponed, and the internist may lose...
Assessment of liver function: although liver function tests and abdominal ultrasound studies can indicate liver disease, they are not able to quantify the severity of disease. Indocyanine green clearance and lidocaine clearance have been used to better assess the degree of functional hepatic tissue. ...
Prognostic value of postoperative CEA clearance in rectal cancer patients with high preoperative CEA levels. Ann Surg Oncol. 2009;16:2771–8. https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-009-0651-x. Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Download references...
The length of flap remaining viable after surgery was shorter in the irradiated than the control flaps. This reduction in flap survival was the same at the three time periods at which it was assessed and for each of the radiation doses selected for the different treatment groups. Clearance ...
Liver function and the surgery performed were similar among all patients included in this study. The outcomes evaluated were clinical characteristics, volumetric computed tomography (CT) findings, the plasma indocyanine green (ICG) clearance rate, and the rate of postoperative hepatic failure. Methods ...
of a group of patients who were undergoing laparoscopic nephron-sparing surgery (NSS), to determine whether we should decide the operational approach (laparoscopic vs open or radical nephrectomy) on the basis of only the preoperative aspects and dimensions used for an anatomic (PADUA) classification...
Additionally, these clinics provide patients and their loved ones with education about perioperative events and the nature of the surgery and anesthesia they will undergo. In the past, patients who had to undergo surgery were referred to the primary care physician for clearance. Today, this is ...
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