tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19802617.post4044043356087251164..comments2024-01-17T04:14:40.892-05:00Comments on A Pastor's Cancer Diary: June 22, 2007 - You Takes Your ChancesCarlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00540884672406337833noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19802617.post-1384340004903579462007-07-22T12:27:00.000-04:002007-07-22T12:27:00.000-04:00These are enviable standards, but they are not alw...These are enviable standards, but they are not always followed. Yes, I received a pre-surgery interview with the anesthesiologist, but it was the morning of the surgery. I called ahead, a day or two before, and tried to raise my concerns earlier, but I was told - by the hospital staff member who answered the phone - that this would not be possible, because they wouldn't know until the morning of the surgery who the anesthesiologist would be.<BR/><BR/>If these are indeed professional standards for anesthesiologists, then it would seem to me the hospital is violating them, in maintaining a policy that makes it effectively impossible for a patient to speak with an anesthesiologist earlier than the morning of the surgery.Carlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00540884672406337833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19802617.post-1321056441561589052007-07-20T16:08:00.000-04:002007-07-20T16:08:00.000-04:00Speaking for the American Association of Certified...Speaking for the American Association of Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (AANA), a preoperative interview with your anesthesia provider is a standard of care within the anesthesia specialty. This confidential discussion with the Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist or anesthesiologist prior to surgery provides information vital to your care and essential to effective communication.<BR/><BR/>On the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) website (http://www.aana.com; click on For Patients, and then All About Anesthesia) you will find a questionnaire you can fill out and bring along to the preoperative interview. Information supplied by the questionnaire assists your anesthesia provider in doing the interview thoroughly and efficiently.<BR/><BR/>If you haven’t had the opportunity to meet your anesthesia provider (for a preoperative interview) prior to the day of surgery, you should have your preoperative interview just before your surgery. At this time, your anesthesia provider will review your medical chart with you in order to better understand your medical condition and needs. <BR/><BR/>Certainly, it was and still is within your rights as a patient to request a preoperative interview, especially if you have any condition -- in your case apnea -- which is likely to affect the administration or effects of anesthesia and your recovery from it.<BR/><BR/>Similarly, if you know of an anesthesia provider whose services you’d prefer to use who works in that hospital you can arrange in advance to use that individual’s services rather than accepting “the luck of the draw.” Keep in mind, however, that some insurance providers require that you utilize healthcare professionals within your own network.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com