https://anaesthesiargh.com/categories/clinical/Recent content in Clinical on anaesthesiarghHugoen-gbSat, 10 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://anaesthesiargh.com/2024/08/observations-from-preassessment-clinic/Sat, 10 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://anaesthesiargh.com/2024/08/observations-from-preassessment-clinic/I spent Thursday in preassessment clinic, that peculiar purgatory where we attempt to predict whether patients will survive their upcoming surgery based on a fifteen-minute conversation and some blood tests from three months ago. The clinic runs on a simple principle: every patient believes they are “fit and well,” and our job is to gently disabuse them of this notion. “Apart from…” The most dangerous words in preassessment are “apart from.