When the nurse in the clinic is doing a preoperative assessment for a patient who is scheduled for outpatient surgery in 1 week, which information about the patient is most important to communicate to the staff at the outpatient surgery center before the patient arrives for surgery?

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When a patient is allergic to latex, special non-latex materials are used during surgical procedures and the staff will need to know about the allergy in advance to obtain appropriate non-latex materials and have them available on the surgical date. The other information about the patient may necessitate changes in choice of preoperative skin preparation, antibiotics, and postoperative diet, but these changes can be made on the day of surgery and do not require preplanning before the patient arrives for surgery.

When the Nurse in the Clinic Is Doing a Preoperative