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Preoperative medical evaluation questions for a healthy patient

Preoperative medical evaluation questions for a healthy patient
Questions
1. Do you usually get chest pain or breathlessness when you climb up two flights of stairs at normal speed?
2. Do you have kidney disease?
3. Has anyone in your family (blood relatives) had a problem following an anaesthetic?
4. Have you ever had a heart attack?
5. Have you ever been diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat?
6. Have you ever had a stroke?
7. If you have been put to sleep for an operation were there any anaesthetic problems?
8. Do you suffer from epilepsy or seizures?
9. Do you have any problems with pain, stiffness or arthritis in your neck or jaw?
10. Do you have thyroid disease?
11. Do you suffer from angina?
12. Do you have liver disease?
13. Have you ever been diagnosed with heart failure?
14. Do you suffer from asthma?
15. Do you have diabetes that requires insulin?
16. Do you have diabetes that requires tablets only?
17. Do you suffer from bronchitis?
Preop_evaluation_questions.htm
Data from: Hilditch, WG, Asbury, AJ, Jack, E, McGrane, S. Validation of a pre-anaesthetic screening questionnaire. Anaesthesia 2003; 58:874.
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