Know Your Script

A card for your anaesthetist

Fill this in, print it, and give it to the pre-admission clinic — not on the day, and not only to the surgeon. Your anaesthetist is usually someone you meet for the first time an hour before.

The pages behind this are unverified drafts. This tool prints documents and prompts, which is why it exists at all — but the law it is derived from has not been checked by anyone yet. Treat it as a memory aid, not as a statement of what is required.

Prescribed medicine — for my anaesthetic record

Name
Date of birth
Procedure and date
Medicine, exactly as printed on the pharmacy label
How often I take it, and when I last did
Prescriber name and contact

I am telling you this so it can be taken into account. I am not asking for advice about it here, and I have not changed how I take it without speaking to the person who prescribed it.

What this card deliberately leaves out

It asks you to copy the label rather than describe the medicine, and it does not suggest changing or stopping anything before surgery. Whether to do that is a question for whoever wrote your prescription, and this site does not answer it. The page behind this card.

Last checked: DRAFT — never verified