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REGULATIONS FOR PERFORMING ROUTINE EXAMS TO PERFORM ELECTIVE SURGERY

2022; Volume: 2; Issue: 36 Linguagem: Inglês

10.22533/at.ed.1592362211079

ISSN

2764-0159

Autores

Erik Bernardes Moreira Alves, Eduardo Lopes Oliveira Peixoto, Josiane Aparecida Fatima Gomes, Maria Helena de Aquino, Vitória Correia dos Santos, Rayssa Coutinho Diogenes, Barbara Ferreira de Brito, Elisa Silva Castro, Daniel Vieira de Souza, Luisa Laufer, Matheus Soares Magalhães, José Bertholdo Marciano Steckelberg,

Tópico(s)

Diversity and Career in Medicine

Resumo

Introduction: Elective surgeries are surgeries performed with previous appointments, that is, a surgery which is scheduled.Thus, the request for exams takes into consideration, the patient's health status at that moment, the risks that the procedure may entail.Objective: To present, describe and demonstrate which are the main routine exams requested for elective surgeries and the relevance of the exams of routines in elective surgeries.Methodology: This is an integrative literature review of an analytical and described character, through data collected in the databases "Scientific Electronic Library Online" (SciELO), the service of the "US National Library of Medicine" (PubMed) (NLM) and "Google Scholar".It was done through the search for descriptors such as: " routine exams", "routine exams for elective surgeries" and "exams requested in elective surgeries" between the years 2016 to 2021.Thus, 11 articles were assigned by eligibility.Results: Of the studies, 3 articles (27.27%) were obtained through Google Scholar; 5 articles (45.45%) by the "PubMed" platform and, finally, 3 articles (27.27%) by "SciELO".Discussion: The evaluation of preoperative laboratory tests is considered a very controversial topic.Since the tests that can or must be ordered before surgery must be based on the clinical evaluation of the patient, considering the anamnesis and physical examination.Conclusion: In short, the preoperative evaluation is of great relevance for the patient and for the physician, and this is how they will analyze the conditions of the patient to be submitted to a proposed surgery and establish possible operative and postoperative risks.

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