PREOP-Gallstones

What's next for preop automation?

How clinics help the preop process.

An expert comments on the preop process.

Dr Pasternak: Bayview uses a preoperative evaluation center (PEC) that is under the management of senior clinical nurses. Bayview has 10 ORs and a surgical volume of 8,000 patients a year. Administratively and clinically, the nurses run the clinic under the direction of an anesthesiologist who is a medical director but who is not on site. We used to have a physician on site who was assigned as ...

Ideas for improving the preop process.

Incidental gallstones.

Gallstones develop in approximately 10% to 15% of the US population and represent one of the most common and most costly of all digestive diseases. Studies investigating gallstones' natural history have shown that gallstone-related complications arise at a rate of approximately 1% per year in asymptomatic patients and 2% per year in patients who already have symptoms. Patients can have any of m...