ASA+Classification

=Short Summary=

E = Emergency
= = = = = = =Full Description:=

ASA 1 Normal Healthy Patient: No organic, physiologic, or psychiatric disturbance; excludes the very young and very old; healthy with good exercise tolerance

ASA 2:Patients with mild systemic disease: No functional limitations; has a well-controlled disease of one body system; controlled hypertension or diabetes without systemic effects, cigarette smoking without chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); mild obesity, pregnancy

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

ASA 4: Patients with severe systemic disease that is a constant threat to life: Has at least one severe disease hat is poorly controlled or at end stage; possible risk of death; unstable angina, symptomatic COPD, symptomatic CHF, hepatorenal failure

ASA 5: Moribund patients who are not expected to survive without the operation: Not expected to survive > 24 hours without surgery; imminent risk of death; multi organ failure, sepsis syndrome with hemodynamic instability, hypothermia, poorly controlled coagulopathy