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Preoperative Care
Preparing a patient for surgery: the history, examination and investigations that matter, consent, fasting guidelines, premedication and antibiotic prophylaxis, and identifying the high-risk patient before the day of operation.
What this lecture covers
- History, examination and the management plan
- Investigations: liver function, electrocardiography, urinalysis
- The consent form
- Nil-by-mouth guidelines
- Premedication
- Antibiotic prophylaxis
- Identifying the high-risk patient
- Special cases: the jaundiced and the diabetic patient
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