Chirurg. 1999 Jan;70(1):10-4. doi: 10.1007/s001040050596.
Der Chirurg; Zeitschrift fur alle Gebiete der operativen Medizen
[Article in German] Schildberg
PMID: 10068816 DOI: 10.1007/s001040050596
The complexity of daily clinical work requires a sophisticated collaboration of surgery and anesthesiology. This can be accomplished by a rational approach to the following topics: clear definition of areas of competence respecting the principle of mutual trust, integration of anesthesiologists into the basic physical examination, proposal of case-oriented preoperative diagnostics, agreement on necessary preoperative therapy, common consultational meetings for outpatient surgery, recovery room available 24 h a day, instruction of the surgical personnel in specific pain therapy, availability of coworkers who are competent and willing to cooperate, no unilateral renunciation of clinical knowledge, ability and execution, no renunciation of organizational and structural self-determination, no monopoly on perioperative medicine.
