Documentation of perioperative resuscitation status for non-elective surgical patients

Variable understanding of national guidelines for perioperative management of Advance Directives (AD) by anesthesiologists has been previously reported in the Journal [1]. Nurok et al. revealed that some anesthesiologists correctly answered questions related to the perioperative management of patients with AD [1]. Answering questions on a survey is one thing; documenting the AD, as it relates to the proposed surgery, in accordance with the guidelines put forth by several national bodies [2 –4] is a higher level of quality care to consider and is rarely reported in the literature.
Source: Journal of Clinical Anesthesia - Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Tags: Correspondence Source Type: research