Should same anaesthetist do preoperative anaesthetic visit and give subsequent anaesthetic? Questionnaire survey of anaesthetists

摘要

The preoperative anaesthetic visit is done to assess the patient's fitness for surgery, to discuss the most appropriate anaesthetic technique, to reassure the patient, to obtain informed consent, and to prescribe premedi-cant drugs. Patients used to be visited by the doctor who later anaesthetised them, but the preoperative visit and the subsequent anaesthetic are now seldom done by the same anaesthetist. Patients would rather be anaesthetised by the doctor who saw them, but anaesthetists' opinions are unexplored.