| 7.1 |
The provisional diagnosis shall be recorded by the surgeon before operation.
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| 7.2 |
The surgeon shall be responsible for securing a properly signed operative consent.
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| 7.3 |
The attending physician shall arrange to have all testing of elective surgery patients performed on pre-admission basis when practical.
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| 7.4 |
Pre-operative assessment of surgical patients shall be performed by an anesthesiologist who shall write a pertinent record of the patient's condition, anesthesia risk (using American Society of Anesthesiology terminology) and the anesthesia selection. The anesthesiologist shall maintain a complete anesthesia record of the pre-anesthetic evaluation and the post-anesthetic follow-up of the patient's condition.
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| 7.5 |
Surgeons shall be in the operating room ready to begin surgery at the time scheduled.
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| 7.6 |
Each operating room surgeon shall be assisted on major operations by a duly qualified assistant which can include any one of the following as specified by the Operating Room Committee regulations.
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