The American Society of Anesthesiologists created the ASA
Physical Classification System in 1941 as a way to assess a patient prior to
administering anesthesia or performing a procedure. Since then, it has come into common
use in the medical profession.
A patient with PS1 status is
considered to be of normal health and free of disease.
A
PS2 patient such as you are asking about is one who has mild disease of a single body
system, but is showing no physical limitations. This patient can engage in moderate
physical exertion successfully. Patients with a controlled disease, such as a diabetic
whose blood sugar is controlled by medication, would fall into this
category.
Patients at PS levels 3 and 4 are showing
increasing debilitation; those at PS 5 are moribund and not expected to survive more
than 24 hours. PS level 6 patients are clinically brain dead, and their bodies are being
maintained for organ harvest.
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