Common tests that your surgeon may ask you to have if you have not had them recently are: Blood tests such as a complete blood count (CBC) and kidney, liver, and blood sugar tests. Chest x-ray to check your lungs. ECG (electrocardiogram) to check your heart.

In many cases, surgeons and other physicians rendering a procedure will require patients to obtain a medical clearance for surgery. These clearances provide the surgeon with the valuable medical opinion of another physician in regards to the patient's safety and risk factors as they relate to the scheduled procedure.

The term is often used by surgeons requesting a medical evaluation before performing surgery on a patient. In the context of surgery, a medical clearance is, essentially, considered to be an authorization from an evaluating clinician that a patient is cleared, or deemed healthy enough, for a proposed surgery.

PREOP CLEARANCE LETTER. Please give this to the provider who will be clearing you for surgery. ... examined this patient, checked all appropriate lab work and tests and certify, that to the best of my knowledge, there is not a medical contraindication for undergoing elective surgery with a general and/or regional anesthesia.

Clearing a patient for surgery is a clinician's attempt to mitigate any side effects from occurring as a result of a surgical procedure.

Document the requesting provider's name and the reason for the preoperative medical evaluation. Forward a copy of the findings of the evaluation and management service and recommendations to the surgeon clearing the patient for surgery. Assign diagnosis code Z01. 812 for the primary diagnosis.

Preoperative History and Physical Examination. The patient should ideally be evaluated several weeks before the operation. The history should include information about the condition for which the surgery is planned, any past surgical procedures and the patient's experience with anesthesia.