Tailoring and teamwork help hospitals reduce wasteful pre-surgery testing

Every day, patients with an upcoming operation roll up their sleeves for blood tests or get heart and lung tests and scans.
Becker's Hospital Review

An effective approach to cut wasteful pre-surgery testing: Study

A customized, team-based strategy significantly reduced unnecessary pre-operative testing for common elective surgeries, according to a new study led ...
STAT

Pregnancy tests are routine before many surgical procedures. But Dobbs has raised the stakes of a positive result

Monica da Silva, a critical care and cardiac anesthesiologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, was counseling a patient who had been in a car accident. She had suffered a broken bone and ...
WGBH

Pre-surgery pregnancy tests pose ethical questions, says MGH doctor

Pre-surgery pregnancy tests can pose ethical questions in the case of producing a positive pregnancy test in states where abortion is banned or restricted, said Dr. Trisha Pasricha, a ...
Medscape

Pre-operative Biomarkers and Imaging Tests as Predictors of Post-operative Delirium in Non-cardiac Surgical Patients

Biomarkers can be useful to improve understanding of pathophysiology of POD, develop new treatment for POD, predict possible long term effects of delirium, stratify high risk patients and allow ...
Becker's Hospital Review

3-Step Preoperative System Promotes Positive Outcomes

Physicians at Allied Anesthesia in Orange, Calif., have been working for the past year to perfect a “Patient Ready Protocol” to improve pre-op coordination, eliminate unnecessary tests and reduce the ...
Science Daily

Patients can safely skip pre-surgery stress tests and beta blockers, study suggests

Physicians should "throttle back" from routinely ordering stress tests and prescribing beta blockers to patients before noncardiac surgeries, according to a new report. Studies suggest such ...
Consumer Reports

Before You Have Surgery, Read This

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WAVY-TV

Sentara hospitals update visitor and pre-op testing policies

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – Sentara will now allow non-COVID patients to have two visitors at its hospitals and emergency rooms in regions where the COVID-19 positivity rate remains below 5% for two ...
The Spokesman-Review

Ask the doctors: Enlarged red blood cells can come from alcohol use

Dear Doctors: My husband is having an elective surgery soon. It requires full anesthesia, so he has had a lot of pre-op tests. One of the blood tests showed that his red blood cells are too big. The ...
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Tailoring & teamwork help hospitals reduce wasteful pre-surgery testing

A pilot study in three hospitals showed how to achieve success in reducing unnecessary blood tests, scans and other tests in low-risk patients having straightforward operations; now, the effort is ...