Dr. P. Selvaraj
DA, DNB, FIPM.,
Consultant Anaesthesiologist, Pain & Perioperative Care Physician.
Perioperative Care involves the right choice of patient for a surgical procedure, appropriate optimization prior to surgery, anaesthetic inputs at surgery to reduce the patients physiological stress and good post operative care until discharge.This is seemingly simple but inherently complex process that is essential for good patient outcome. Application of evidence based scientific principles with an ethical and patient centred approach forms the basis of perioperative care, which requires a team of like minded professionals with a common goal aimed at the “patient and only the patient”.