JOURNAL WATCH: OUTPATIENT SURGERY MAGAZINE

A Better Way to Predict Operative Risk. Ahmad I. October 2007:98-100 • The author points out that the ASA Physical Status Classification System is being used in ways it was never intended including determining patient operative risk. In this anesthesia alert, Milad presents a simple scale based on clinical data as well as personal clinical experience. The scale comes from quantifying three categories of information from the patient’s chart and was applied to 5604 patients throughout 2006. Results of the study indicated that the scale is accurate.