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The Preoperative Clearance Bench

The preoperative interview is the highest-yield hour of the whole surgical episode, because nearly every catastrophe downstream is either predicted or prevented here. Type a panel into the Labs bench and read what each number does to the case; score the airway in Risk; then work the Morning meds tray and decide what this patient swallows at 0600.

Whose reference range?

Load a real preoperative panel
Or type any value — the reading updates live

STOP-BANG — screen every surgical patient

ASA physical status
Functional capacity

0600, morning of surgery — give it or hold it?

The tray
She is first case at 0730 for an open right hemicolectomy. Everything below is on her home list. Decide each one, and use Check first only when the honest answer is that no nurse and no protocol decides it alone.

What this panel does to the case

Carry these numbers in your head