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Pre-admission Clinic for Gold Coast University Hospital (GCUH) · Refer Your Patient
Copied from the official Gold Coast Health condition page (27 Aug 2026). Hospital triage assigns the official category. Live source: Refer Your Patient — Pre-operative medical assessment.
Cat 1 · 30 days
appointment within 30 calendar days. - High risk surgery (e.g. vascular surgery, major intra-cavity surgery, neurosurgery) - High risk clinical factors (e.g. known cardiac or respiratory disease, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, cirrhosis, neurological diseases, malnutrition) - Urgent or semi-urgent (Category 1 or 2) surgery - Older age (>70 years) and/or frailty - Past anaesthetic or peri-operative complications - Receiving anticoagulants or anti-platelet agents
Cat 2 · 90 days
appointment within 90 calendar days. - Moderate risk surgery (e.g. amputation, orthopaedic surgery, head and neck surgery, major breast and plastic surgery) - Moderate risk patient (e.g. hypertension, obesity, obstructive sleep apnoea)
Cat 3 · 365 days
appointment within 365 calendar days. - No category 3 criteria
Referral will be returned without this. If a mandatory test cannot be obtained, say so in the referral.
- Relevant medical history (including past surgical history), comorbidities and - Medications (including over the counter (OTC) and complementary medications) - Details about planned procedure, surgeon, and informed consent procedure (if known) - Usual exercise tolerance and level of physical activity - ECG (for patients with past cardiac history or multiple cardiac risk factors) - Bedside spirometry (for current smokers and patients with known COPD (Results of any past echocardiograms in patients with known heart disease (if available) - INR levels (for patients receiving warfarin) - FBC & ELFTs results (for high risk patients or patients undergoing moderate to high risk surgery, or known renal or liver disease)
There are currently no out of scope conditions for this service.
Parent service: Pre-admission Clinic for Gold Coast University Hospital (GCUH)
Sign in for localised assessment and management. HealthPathways does not send the referral. Register: gchealthpathways@health.qld.gov.au