Operating Room Post-Anesthesia Care Vital Signs 
DFW Anesthesia Professionals
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Anesthesiology residents play an important role in the operating room (OR), assisting with patient care while also undergoing rigorous training to become skilled anesthesiologists. Their responsibilities encompass a range of tasks, from preoperative evaluations to the administration of anesthesia and postoperative care.
The Anesthesia Consultant
FEBRUARY 16, 2021
Empty Operating Room 0655 hours—You don a bouffant hat and a facemask, and enter your operating room. Your hospital contains multiple operating rooms, and today you are in room #10. Anesthesia Workstation You log into the EMR system, and then you log into your first patient’s chart.
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The Anesthesia Consultant
MAY 2, 2023
Louis Imagine this: You’re an anesthesiologist in the operating room at a busy hospital. Your patient is in mid-surgery, and you receive a call from the Anesthesia Control Tower that the patient’s blood pressure is too low, your blood transfusion replacement is inadequate, and that the patient is in danger.
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. The patient enters the operating room at 0730 hours. The patient consents.
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
JANUARY 30, 2024
The surgeon is not “the captain of the ship” in the operating room. When you want to accelerate the heart rate in the operating room or the post anesthesia care unit, use the first drug recommended in the ACLS and American Heart Association bradycardia algorithms—and that drug is atropine.
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.
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