Preanesthesia Anxiety

Practice Advisory for Preanesthesia Evaluation

P RACTICE Advisories are systematically developed reports that are intended to assist decision-making in areas of patient care. Advisories provide a synthesis and analysis of expert opinion, clinical feasibility data, open forum commentary, and consensus surveys. Practice Advisories developed by the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) are not intended as standards, guidelines, or absolu...

Anesthesiologists Task Force on Preanesthesia Evaluation

P RACTICE Advisories are systematically developed reports that are intended to assist decision-making in areas of patient care. Advisories provide a synthesis and analysis of expert opinion, clinical feasibility data, open forum commentary, and consensus surveys. Practice Advisories developed by the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) are not intended as standards, guidelines, or absolu...

Practice Advisory for Preanesthesia Evaluation A Report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Preanesthesia Evaluation

PRACTICE advisories are systematically developed reports that are intended to assist decision-making in areas of patient care where scientific evidence is insufficient to develop an evidence-based model. Practice advisories provide a synthesis of opinion from experts, open forums, and other public sources. Practice advisories report the current state of scientific literature, but are not suppor...

Patterns of communication during the preanesthesia visit.

BACKGROUND Effective communication in the preanesthesia clinic is important in patient-centered care. Although patient-physician communication has been studied by recordings in other contexts, there have been no observational studies of the communication patterns of anesthesiologists and patients during the preanesthesia interview. METHODS Two experienced standardized patients were trained to...

Practice Advisory for Preanesthesia Evaluation A Report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Preanesthesia Evaluation