The document discusses preoperative and postoperative care. It covers preoperative assessment including history taking, physical examination, and risk assessment. Preoperative preparation includes fasting, blood tests, medication administration, and informed consent. Premedication goals are to reduce anxiety, secretions, and nausea/vomiting. Common premeditations include anticholinergics like atropine and scopolamine, benzodiazepines like diazepam and midazolam, and narcotics like pethidine and morphine. Care is taken to minimize risk and ensure patient safety before, during, and after surgery.

1. Preoperative and postoperative
care
:Edited by Dr Salem Al-Shabahi

2. PREOPERATIVE
CARE

3. Pre-operative Management
• Pre-operative Assessment.
• Pre-operative Preparation.
• Premedication.

4. Pre-operative Assessment
• The purposes of pre-operative visit.
• Taking history .
• Physical Examination.
• Risk Assessment.
• Common causes for postponing Surgery.

5. The purposes of pre-operative visit
• Establish report with the patient.
• Taking a history .
• Order special investigation.
• Assess the risk of anaesthesia.
• Start pre-operative management.
• Discussion about pre-operative and plan the
anaesthetic management.
• To avoid any drug induction or not.
• Introduce a treatment in early post-operative period.
.

6. History Taking
• Chart review
• Present illness
• Family History: porphyria, malignant
hyperpyraxia, haemophilia, Cholinesterase
abnormalities and dystrophy myotonica .
• Disease of C.V.S & Respiratory, dyspnoea,
paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnoea, orthopnoea,
angina , MI .

7. History Taking
• Hematological Disease : Anemia , Clotting
abnormalities , Thromboprophylaxis .
• Musculoskeletal Disease : Rheumatoid Arthritis .
• Renal Disease : Renal Failure , Patients on Dialysis
.
• CNS Disease: Seizures , TIA , Stroke, Raise ICP.
• GI: Liver Disease , hepatitis, vomiting , diarrhea
• Endocrine Disease: Diabetes Mellitus

8. A history of previous anaesthesia .
• Allergy to drugs .
• Sore throat and headache
• Post-operative nausea or vomiting.
• Expose to Halothane within 3 months prior to
Surgery
• DVT or Respiratory problems.
• Difficulties with tracheal intubation.

9. History Taking
• Allergy to drugs, food, antibiotics, anesthetic
agent, latex allergy and atopic patient
• HBV,HCV,HIV carriers have additional risk on
staff.
• Taking a special method with infected patient:

10. Pregnancy
• If it’s elective surgery then postpone it till
delivery.
• Many anaesthetic are teratogenic
especially in early stage.
• They my induct spontaneous abortion.

11. Smoking
• Smoking indicate: CVS problems , chronic
bronchitis or Lung CA.
• It cause tachycardia, increase peripheral
resistance, decrease the availability of
O2 by 25%, and the Respiratory
complication will increase by 6 folds.
• It must be stopped 1 month to
operation
Or at least 6 hours before anesthesia .

12. Alcohol
• Alcohol: it cause induction of liver enzyme,
hepatic & cardiac damage, delirium tremors
post-operatively as result of drug withdrawal.
• Drug history: many drugs interact with the
anaesthesia
• Drugs must be stooped before surgery and
anesthesia (contraceptive tablets .warfarin
and MAOI )

13. Drug History
• CVS medication: ACE Inhibitors, Diuretics, B-
Blockers, Calcium channel blockers
• Antibiotics: Aminoglycosides,Sulphonamides.
• Anticoagulant: Warfarin, Aspirin,
contraceptive, hormone replacement therapy
• Lithium and Insulin .

14. Physical Examination
• Full examination must be done even if it’s a minor
surgery.
• General: color, activity, weight, dehydrated, & type
of breathing.
• CVS: pulse volume, rate, and pressure, heart sounds,
& BP.
• RS: Breathing sound, chest , airway and trachea.
• Assessment of the ease of tracheal intubation.

15. Physical Examination
• Mouth opening – Flexion of cervical spine &
extension of Atlanto-occipital joint.
• CNS : cranial nerve examination , Eye
Examination , Peripheral sensory & Motor
Dysfunction

16. Investigation
• Routine investigation : urine analysis & CBC
• Medically fit pt less than 40 yr old ( Hb & sugar
in urine )
• Medically fit pt more than 50 yr old ( Hb &
sugar in urine + chest X-ray & ECG )
• More investigation, if the pt has any medical
diseases.

17. Risk Assessment
• Overall mortality rate from surgery is 0.6% while
from anaesthesia 1/1000.
• The information gathered is used to predict the
patient absolute mortality
Grade status absolute mortality
1 a normal healthy patient 0.1
2 mild systemic disease 0.2
3 severe systemic disease 1.8
4 incapacitating systemic disease 7.8
5 a moribund patient 9.8

18. Causes of death due to anaesthesia
• Inadequate preoperative assessment.
• Inadequate supervision & monitoring inter-
operative period.
• Inadequate post-operative care.

19. Common causes for postponing surgery
• Acute upper respiratory tract infection.
• Untreated medical diseases.
• Inadequate resuscitates pt in emergency( 1/3
of fluid lost ) in dehydrated pt & 100 BP in
shock pt.
• Recent ingestion of food.
• Failure to obtain informed consent.
• MI : wait 6 months

20. Pre-operative preparation
for surgery & anaesthesia
• History , physical examination & investigation
• Preoperative fasting
• Providing information to the patient & gaining
a consent
• Collect or Prepare of the blood product
• Organize appropriate staff and equipment in
the theater

21. Pre-operative preparation
for surgery & anaesthesia
• BP should not be more than 100-105 mmhg
diastolic.
• Control cardiac diseases,
• FBS = 130-180 mg/100cc bld.
• Bld preparation for major surgery.
• Drugs which may be given in the day of
operation: steroid, aminophyline, heparin,
antibiotic, & insulin.

22. Pre-Medication
The objective of pre-medication
• Allay anxiety and fear.
• Reduce secretions.
• Enhance the hypotonic effect of anaesthetic agents.
• Reduce postoperative nausea & vomiting.
• Produce amnesia.
• Reduce the volume & increase pH of gastric
contents.
• Reduce vagal reflexes.
• Limitation of sympathoadrenal response

23. Anti cholinergic
• They are used to :
1- antisialagogue effect ( reduce secretion )
2- sedative and amnesic effect
3- prevention of reflex bradycardia : as
prophylactic and treatment of bradycardia

24. Anti cholinergic
• Atropine:
• given IM in a dose 0.6 mg for adult & 0.01 mg/kg.
• It reduce the oral and respiratory secretion.
• It’s highly indicated in anal surgery, eye surgery,
bronchoscope, suxamethonium single dose, and
Ketamine.
• It should not be used for pt with high tem,
thyrotoxicosis, heart failure controlled by digoxin.

25. Anti cholinergic
• Scopolamine:
• Given IM,IV, or SC in a dose 0.4.
• It produce amnesia, hallocination, and reduce
salivation.
• It should not be given to a pt below 6 yr and
above 60 yr.

26. Anti cholinergic
• Side effects :
1 - CNS toxicity : restlessness , agitation ,
somnolence , convulsion & coma
2 - reduction in lower esophageal sphincter tone
3 - tachycardia
4 – visual impairment
5 – pyrexia
6 – excessive drying

27. Benzodiazepines
• They are used to :
1 – relief anxiety
2 – sedation
3 – anterograde amnesia
4 – muscle relaxants

28. Benzodiazepines
• Diazepam: 0.2 mg/kg. long acting, night
before the operation.. It produce light
anaesthesia.
• Midazolam: 0.1 mg/kg. shorter in action.
Hepatic & non-hepatic elimination and
doesn’t cause thrombosis.

29. Narcotic
• They are used to :
1 – production sedation
2 – relieve pain
3 – when using opioids ,lower concentration of
anesthetic agent is required for maintenance
of anesthesia because of its synergistic effects
with anesthetics .

30. Narcotic
• Pethidine: 1.5 mg/kg with mild atropine like
action. Moderate to sever pain.
• Morphine: 0.15 mg/kg. It’s more potent with
incidence of vomiting.
• Omnapone: it’s extract of opiate. 50%
morphine, 25% morphine like action, and 25%
papaverine.

31. Narcotic
• Side effect :
1 – depression of ventilation and delay
resumption of spontaneous ventilation at the
end of anesthesia .
2 – nausea and vomiting
3 – Rt upper quadrant pain

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