General Anesthesia Post-Anesthesia Care Vital Signs 
The Anesthesia Consultant
OCTOBER 14, 2022
Imagine this scenario: You’ve just finished anesthetizing a patient in a hospital setting, and the patient now requires transport from the operating room (OR) to the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU). It’s common for zero monitoring equipment to be attached to the patient. We need pulse oximetry monitoring.
The Anesthesia Consultant
NOVEMBER 15, 2017
Let’s look at a case study which highlights a specific risk of general anesthesia at a freestanding surgery center or a surgeon’s office operating room, when the anesthesiologist departs soon after the case is finished. I’ve personally performed over 7,000 general anesthetics in freestanding surgery centers and office operating rooms.
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The Anesthesia Consultant
FEBRUARY 16, 2021
Your station in the operating room consists of an anesthesia machine; a bevy of vital signs monitors; a computerized pharmacy cart; a cart full of syringes and equipment; and the computer which handles the hospital’s electronic medical record (EMR). You may have nausea after general anesthesia.
The Anesthesia Consultant
OCTOBER 11, 2020
An anesthesia machine, with the vital signs monitor screen on the left, and the electronic medical records computer screen on the right. His vital signs are heart rate = 100, BP = 150/80, respiratory rate = 20 breaths/minute, oxygen saturation 95% on room air, and temperature 100.2 The BP is 100/50.
The Anesthesia Consultant
MARCH 31, 2015
An anesthesia emergency occurs without warning. Your patient’s vital signs are dropping. You need the ultimate anesthesia emergency guidebook. That ultimate guidebook is the S tanford Emergency Manual of Cognitive Aids for Perioperative Critical Events S , written by the Stanford Anesthesia Cognitive Aid Group.
The Anesthesia Consultant
NOVEMBER 28, 2017
Propofol infusions are typically used to make our patients sleep, and most propofol infusions cross the American Society of Anesthesiologists line into general anesthesia. You may make the surgeon happy, and you may continue to have a safe airway under general anesthesia in the absence of the endotracheal tube, but what if you don’t?
The Anesthesia Consultant
MAY 2, 2023
Alerts or abnormal vital signs and laboratory results are represented by squares and triangles, respectively. The Tower Mode view looks like this (Figure 1): Figure 1 Census View, Anesthesia Tower The Tower Mode includes a display for each individual patient (Figure 2 below). Will I Have a Breathing Tube During Anesthesia?
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