Pre-Operative Anesthesia Assessment
Activity
Clinical Skills Sessions
Clinical Skills Sessions
Valerie presents today to your pre-operative anesthesia clinic in advance of a planned curative intent mastectomy with sentinel lymph node biopsy, where subsequent management will depend on whether there are positive or negative surgical margins. Take a relevant history and perform an appropriate physical exam. At the end of your interview, discuss initial next steps for management for Valerie’s care.
Curriculum Block
Complexity and Chronicity / Integration Foundation / Part 5 / Week 1
- Indicates most relevant
Objectives
Activity Objectives
- To practice a focused respiratory history, focusing on assessing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- To introduce and practice an Anesthesia Pre-Operative Physical Exam; and to practice a respiratory examination.
- To practice using likelihood ratios from the JAMA Rational Clinical Exam Article "Will this patient be difficult to intubate?" to formulate a post-test probability of difficult intubation in this case.
- To practice motivational interviewing for a patient in a preparation stage of change with a focus on smoking cessation.
Assessments
Objectives Structured Clinical Examination
End-Unit Clinical Skills Assessment
Tags
AFMC National Clinical Skills
Respiratory Examination
Curriculum Block
Complexity and Chronicity
Integration Foundation
Part 5
Week 1
Curriculum Week
IF
Week 5
Discipline
Anesthesiology
MCC Presentations
Breast Masses and Enlargement
Pre-Operative Medical Evaluation
McMaster Program Competencies
1.1 Gather essential and accurate information about patients and their health through history-taking, physical examination, and the use of laboratory data, imaging, and other tests.
2.3 Apply principles of clinical sciences to diagnostic and therapeutic decision-making, clinical problem-solving, and other aspects of evidence-based healthcare
MeSH
Diagnostic Techniques, Respiratory System [E01.370.386]
Breast Neoplasms [C04.588.180]
Clinical Competence [I02.399.630.210]
Intubation [E05.497]
Preoperative Care [E02.760.795]
Preoperative Care [N02.421.585.795]
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive [C08.381.495.389]
Smoking Cessation [F01.145.940.700]
