Hospital Post-Anesthesia Care Vital Signs 
The Anesthesia Consultant
FEBRUARY 16, 2021
To aid you in visualizing yourself in the hospital, I’m substituting the pronoun “you” instead of “I” in the narrative below. You complete your morning bathroom and breakfast routines, and leave your residence at 0630 hours for the hospital. Your hospital contains multiple operating rooms, and today you are in room #10.
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.
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The Anesthesia Consultant
MAY 2, 2023
The Barnes Jewish Hospital, Washington University, St. Louis Imagine this: You’re an anesthesiologist in the operating room at a busy hospital. Anesthesiologists at Barnes Jewish Hospital at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri are studying a novel system they call the Anesthesia Control Tower (ACT).
The Anesthesia Consultant
NOVEMBER 15, 2017
The anesthesiologist and the operating room nurse transport the patient to the PACU (Post Anesthesia Care Unit), where the patient is connected to the standard monitors of pulse oximetry, ECG, blood pressure, and temperature. This is every anesthesia provider’s nightmare. Can this scenario occur?
The Anesthesia Consultant
JANUARY 30, 2024
Imagine you’re two months out of anesthesia training, working at a community hospital, and at 2 a.m. you need to induce emergency anesthesia for a 300-pound man who just ate a full meal of pizza and beer two hours earlier. You’re working alone without that anesthesia attending who stood next to you during residency training.
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.
EARN Cares
OCTOBER 11, 2023
This includes basic qualifications like taking blood pressure, vital signs, measuring heart rate, and listening with a stethoscope. Specifically, you will want to ensure that you have ann active certification in Advanced Cardiac Life Support, a certification that is required for all critical care roles.
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