Post-Anesthesia Care Safety Vital Signs 
DFW Anesthesia Professionals
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
The role of anesthesiology residents in the OR helps ensure patient safety and optimize surgical outcomes. They closely monitor the patient’s vital signs, such as heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature and body fluid balance. Guidelines for Resident Experience in the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit.”
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). The surgery will take approximately three hours.
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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
Make sure you have preoperative informed consent for general anesthesia as a back up, because it’s likely you’ll need to administer it. A patient who’s been in the PACU (Post Anesthesia Care Unit) for an hour tells you, “I want more intravenous narcotics.” He refused a femoral nerve block prior to surgery.
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.
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