Checklist By The Patient Before Surgery

In every hospital, pre-surgery surgeons have a checklist to ensure that the instruments and other required things are available or not. This checklist is extremely important to prevent any miss-happening or shortage to save the patient’s life. This checklist is helpful in controlling the unexpected health condition of the patient during or post-surgery.

The checklist is not also important for the surgeons it is also important for the patients. The surgeon’s checklist ensures that the required items for surgery are available or not and are in working condition or not. Such as surgical tools, surgical scrub station, OT Light, and more. But the patient’s checklist contains different questions such as:
  • Requirement and type of surgery: This is a patient’s right to know that the surgery is important or not. If medication is enough to deal with disease then he or she may refuse the surgery also. The patient may ask several questions to the surgeon such as what type of surgery he is going to perform and what technology will take part in the procedure.
  • Availability of oxygen and blood: The patient may ask if the hospital has blood availability for his or her group. This question will be helpful to deal with the case of blood shortage. The availability of medical gas pipeline is also a very important question in patient’s checklist
  • Surgeon details: Check if the surgeon is experienced in the same surgery. Does he or she belongs from a good carrier history or not. The answers to these questions will give you the satisfaction of getting operated with safe hands.
  • Effects and side effects of the surgery: Ask if there is any side effect of the surgery or not. And if the answer is yes then ask the seriousness of their side effects and treatment.
  • Rest requirement and precautions pre and post-surgery: Ask the precautions that you need to take for the surgery a few days early and a few days back of the surgery. If your surgeon suggests a long term rest then arrange someone for your assistance.
Don’t forget to ask this question before you go for any surgery. These questions will surely short out all your problems that you may face in the condition of a lack of information.

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