Organisational Issues in Pre Operative Assessment for Day Surgery
Organisational Issues in Pre Operative Assessment for Day
Surgery
First published May 2010
Prepared by Mary Stocker (editor), Jane Montgomery, Anna Lipp,
Bisi Olaye, S Lewis, Ian Armstrong, Theresa Hinde, Madhu Ahuja,
Rachel Blackshaw, John Carlisle, Jill Solly, Kerri Houghton, Nicki
Bennett and Anne Coomber
Includes:
- Introduction
- Demand and capacity in pre operative assessment
- The optimum process for day surgery pre operative
assessment
- Training for nurses undertaking pre operative
assessment
- Auditing outcomes in pre operative assessment
- Venous thromboembolism (VTE) management in day surgery
- Pre operative investigations for the day surgery patient
- The role of pre operative assessment in informed decision
making
- Staffing requirements for a pre operative assessment
service
- Occupational therapy input to pre operative
assessment
