ASA physical status | Description |
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I | Normal, healthy patient |
II | Patient with mild systemic disease which does not affect daily functioning (such as controlled hypertension, stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), well-regulated diabetes mellitus, mild obesity) |
III | Severe systemic disease which affects daily functioning (such as coronary artery disease, heart failure or COPD limiting exercise tolerance, morbid obesity) |
IV | Systemic disease that is a constant threat to life (such as invalidating COPD or heart failure, unstable angina pectoris) |
V | Moribund patient |