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    ASA

     PS  Classifications  From  The  American  Society  Of  Anesthesiologists  


     
    ASA  PS  
    Preoperative  Health  Status   Comments,  Examples  
    Category  

    No  organic,  physiologic,  or  psychiatric  disturbance;  excludes  the  very  


    ASA  PS  1   Normal  healthy  patient  
    young  and  very  old;  healthy  with  good  exercise  tolerance  
    No  functional  limitations;  has  a  well-­‐controlled  disease  of  one  body  
    Patients  with  mild  systemic   system;  controlled  hypertension  or  diabetes  without  systemic  effects,  
    ASA  PS  2  
    disease   cigarette  smoking  without  chronic  obstructive  pulmonary  disease  (COPD);  
    mild  obesity,  pregnancy  

    Some  functional  limitation;  has  a  controlled  disease  of  more  than  one  
    body  system  or  one  major  system;  no  immediate  danger  of  death;  
    Patients  with  severe  systemic  
    ASA  PS  3   controlled  congestive  heart  failure  (CHF),  stable  angina,  old  heart  attack,  
    disease  
    poorly  controlled  hypertension,  morbid  obesity,  chronic  renal  failure;  
    bronchospastic  disease  with  intermittent  symptoms  

    Patients  with  severe  systemic   Has  at  least  one  severe  disease  that  is  poorly  controlled  or  at  end  stage;  
    ASA  PS  4   disease  that  is  a  constant  threat   possible  risk  of  death;  unstable  angina,  symptomatic  COPD,  symptomatic  
    to  life   CHF,  hepatorenal  failure  
    Moribund  patients  who  are  not   Not  expected  to  survive  >  24  hours  without  surgery;  imminent  risk  of  
    ASA  PS  5   expected  to  survive  without  the   death;  multiorgan  failure,  sepsis  syndrome  with  hemodynamic  instability,  
    operation   hypothermia,  poorly  controlled  coagulopathy  
    A  declared  brain-­‐dead  patient  
    ASA  PS  6   who's  organs  are  being  removed  
     
    for  donor  purposes  

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