New UK guidelines recommend GPs refer patients for elective surgery only if their blood pressure is below 160/100 mm Hg over the previous 12 months to reduce last-minute cancellations.
New UK guidelines recommend that GPs only refer patients for elective surgery if their blood pressure is below 160/100 mm Hg to minimize last-minute cancellations.
GPs should include information on a patient’s blood pressure (BP) in referral letters for elective surgery and should refer only those with BP lower than 160/100 mm Hg over the previous 12 months, say new guidelines that aim to reduce surgery cancellations due to high BP.1 Nearly 1% of planned surgery in the NHS is currently cancelled at the last minute, and hypertension is a common reason. “Across the UK this equates to approximately 100 concerned and inconvenienced patients each day, with associated costs to the NHS and the national economy,” said the co-chair of the guideline working party, Andrew Hartle, who is a consultant anaesthetist at St Mary’s Hospital in London and president of the …
Susan Mayor (Sun,) conducted a other in Hypertension in elective surgery. Blood pressure below 160/100 mm Hg was evaluated on Surgery cancellations due to high blood pressure. New UK guidelines recommend GPs refer patients for elective surgery only if their blood pressure is below 160/100 mm Hg over the previous 12 months to reduce last-minute cancellations.