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title: 'Challenges in Pre-operative Preparation'
type: 'episode'
url: 'https://doc.social/episodes/challenges-in-pre-operative-preparation'
show: 'First Case'
show_url: 'https://doc.social/podcasts/first-case'
published: '2021-01-25'
audio: 'https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/firstcase/FC002_-_Challenges_in_Pre-operative_Preparation.mp3'
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# Challenges in Pre-operative Preparation

written by Paul Wafer, BS, MBA, RN

## Summary

This week's episode of the First Case "Articles On-The-Go" series features, Paul Wafer, BS, MBA, RN discussing challenges in pre-operative preparation: "It is one of the great mysteries of life that some offices can have all of the information available days in advance, including the H&P, while others struggle getting it to you before the patient goes into the operating room. We recommend that one of the requirements for having a first case of the day is that the H&P be on the chart at least the day prior to surgery. How else can the RN and Anesthesia provider adequately assess the patient if that information is missing? If a physician cannot get an H&P to the hospital prior to the day of surgery, that physician should not be able to schedule cases for the first case of the day...."

Hope you enjoy! Thanks for listening!

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