Pre-Operative Assessment

• Definitions & documentation
• Professional & legal considerations
• Guidelines for day surgery Anaesthetic risk assessment - problems & management
• Taking a history and informed consent
• Systems review
• Physical examination
• Management of clinical problems
• Understanding of haematology and biochemistry results
• Pre-operative investigations
• Service development and clinical audit

• To develop and understand pre-operative assessment and patient management skills
• The fundamentals of taking a patient history and performing a social and psychological assessment
• Develop competent physical examination skills (selection)

Nurses, operating department practitioners