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Thursday, October 29, 2015

DO YOU KNOW?



ASA-2014 UPDATE

A social drinker is ASA II

A smoker is ASA II

Pregnant patient is ASA II

Obese patient is ASA II

Morbid obesity is not ASA II, but ASA III

Alcohol dependence without any documented systemic illness is also ASA III

Premature infant is ASA III

ESRD with regular HD is ASA III

ESRD without regular HD is ASA IV

Evidence of Sepsis or DIC- ASA IV

Intracranial bleed with mass effect is ASA V

A cardiac patient with bowel ischemia is ASA V