Key result
Preoperative anesthetic clearance identifies high-risk cases and optimizes patient status in secondary healthcare settings.
Why the study?
Preoperative anesthetic clearance is essential in secondary healthcare institutions with limited resources to identify high-risk patients and modifiable risk factors before surgery.
Preoperative anesthetic clearance serves as an essential screening tool in secondary healthcare settings to identify and optimize high-risk surgical patients.
May support screening in secondary settings; leaves open need for prospective validation.
Preoperative Anesthetic clearance or PAC in short is not just an exercise undertaken to check the fitness status of any patient about to undergo surgery, but also acts as a screening tool to identify high risk cases.Especially in a secondary healthcare system with limited resources and lack of backup services, an anesthetist has to be very meticulous in selection of cases.PAC is the primary tool to carry out this.It is a procedure basically carried out to analyze the general physical, cardiac and respiratory status of the patient.It ascertains that whether or not the patient is able to handle the stress of anesthesia or not.It also acts as a screening tool to identify any modifiable risk factor which can be corrected before surgery.
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Sharma et al. (2023) conducted a review in Patients undergoing surgery. Preoperative Anesthetic Clearance was evaluated. Preoperative Anesthetic Clearance serves as an essential screening tool in secondary healthcare institutions to identify high-risk cases and optimize patient status prior to surgery.
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