Episode 7: Management of the patient with respiratory disease part 1
Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast
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How to Optimize Patients Preoperatively
An ABG may be helpful in patients with severe disease because it gives you a baseline to know if they're a retainer of carbon dioxide. A chest x-ray is probably not warranted for non-thoracic surgery unless the patient has known chronic lung disease. You want to do assessment of cardiac risk, and this is really important. If they tell you they have a 60-packier smoking history, even if they don't carry diagnosis of COPD, you want to read that as COPD.
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