Welcome
This website is designed to offer guidance for the assessment of an adult patient who is scheduled to undergo elective surgery at The Beacon Hospital in Dublin. This document should provide instructions for most routinely encountered circumstances, and assist in the safe and efficient preparation of the majority of patients.
Details of how to use this resource are linked in the navbar at the top of the page. To the left, there are more detailed areas should you know what you are trying to find. The top right of this page houses a search facility, and can help locate specific advice.
If the information available here is unclear, does not fully answer your question, or does not address the specific circumstance you are investigating, then the opinion of the patients primary doctor or consultant anaesthesiologist should be sought.