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How many of yall go out of your way to try to reach family members to discuss risks and benefits of anesthesia for patients who can't communicate?
I routinely look up family members phone number and call them just to give heads up about potential complications, especially death in these patients. Most of the anesthesiologists I work with never attempt to contact family and never even see these patients until they arrive in the OR, where they go and sign the prefilled "consent of anesthesia" in the chart that the ICU nurse have the family member sign. They just look up the electronic medical record before the case.
Since I'm the outlier in my practice, I'm wondering how you guys are doing it? Am I doing extra work needlessly here?
I routinely look up family members phone number and call them just to give heads up about potential complications, especially death in these patients. Most of the anesthesiologists I work with never attempt to contact family and never even see these patients until they arrive in the OR, where they go and sign the prefilled "consent of anesthesia" in the chart that the ICU nurse have the family member sign. They just look up the electronic medical record before the case.
Since I'm the outlier in my practice, I'm wondering how you guys are doing it? Am I doing extra work needlessly here?