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BTK ABSITE 2022 - Anesthesia

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

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What's the Difference Between Class Five and Class Six?

A class five is basically a patient who is dying or likely to die within the next 24 hours, with or without surgery. And then add yad e to the end of that to indicate emergency surgery. A and he general surge means it's a brain dead or a organ donor. These are patients that need to be heavily optimized before doing elective procedure on for obvious reason.

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