PREPARATION OF ADULT PATIENTS FOR ANESTHESIA AND SURGERY

Although the experience of a surgical and anaesthesiological procedure is unique to every patient, many preoperative events and routines wil l to a certain extent be shared by a majority of patients. This review will be limited to this area of routine preoperative care and evaluat ion, as applied to and by the anaesthesia team before elective surgery . The word ''routine'' is used more in the sense of what is most commo nly done; the notion of a mechanically performed act is totally inappr opriate and dangerous in this context. (C) Acta Anaesthesiol Scandinav ica 40 (1996)..