1. What are Mrs. Parks' general risk factors that increase her chance for anesthetic complications?

Age (elderly); co-morbidities (respiratory disease, diabetes mellitus, obesity); social history (smoking)

2. What is Mrs. Parks' physical status classification, according to the ASA?

PS-3

3. Mrs. Parks' daughter is currently going to nursing school and asks you what the statistics are for mortality related to anesthesia. You answer:

D.  1 in 250,000