Patient perspectives on informed consent for anaesthesia and surgery: American attitudes

Abstract

Greater awareness of patient preferences and expectations may result in better information exchange between anaesthesia providers and their patients.

Anesthesiologists’ perception of perioperative stroke risk during non-neurologic and non-cardiac surgery

“…3 Evidence suggests that patients wish to discuss uncommon complications, particularly those with serious consequences. 5 Our results indicate fewer than half of Canadian anesthesiologists discuss the risks of stroke with high-risk patients. Proactive discussion by anesthesiologists is particularly important given that our respondents indicated that surgical patients rarely ask questions about stroke.…”

Can Haste in Pre-Anaesthetic Check-up Increase the Chances of Post-Operative Stroke: A Case Report

“…This is important from medico legal aspects as well. Burkle et al in their study have concluded that majority of the patients in U.S. want rare and serious complications to be discussed prior to surgery [13]. Although no such study has been conducted among Indian population, but experience shows similar sentiments especially in urban population.…”

Using Improvement Science Methods to Increase Accuracy of Surgical Consents

“…Many organizations use nonstandardized processes to document consent and use fill‐in‐the‐blank forms with handwritten notes and medical jargon or generic consent‐for‐treatment documents that are not specific to the given procedure 15 . Patients and physicians also do not always agree about which aspects of informed consent are important 25‐27 . In addition, the belief that the consent process is just a formality or that the consent form serves primarily to protect the physician and hospital 28,29 may result in just a cursory reading by all parties 16 .…”