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Your station in the operating room consists of an anesthesia machine; a bevy of vitalsigns 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. Do you have any questions?”
The operating room team today consists of multiple professionals working in collaboration, including the surgeon, the scrub tech, the circulating nurse, and the anesthesia MD or CRNA. This image of operating room hierarchy has disappeared since the 1940s. These members, each competent in his or her own right, work together as a team.
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. Her last job was as a home health nurse for a registry company. The anesthesiologist has never met her before.
Vigilance regarding a sleeping patient’s vitalsigns was always paramount, but the constant effort to be vigilant could be mind-numbing. Anesthesiologists could chat with the surgeons and/or nurses, make an occasional phone call, and at times read materials they brought with them into the operating room.
In an anesthesia care team, a physician anesthesiologist supervises up to four operating rooms and each operating room is staffed with a certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA). In seventeen “opt-out” states in America a solitary CRNA can attend to a patient without any physician anesthesiologist backup.
Identify and address potential causes: Once the patient’s vitalsigns have stabilized or as the resuscitation efforts continue, the medical team will work to identify the underlying cause of the cardiac event. In this situation, it’s crucial to seek immediate medical attention. No, not really.
His preoperative vitalsigns were normal with an oxygen saturation of 98%. His preoperative vitalsigns were normal. Have the Stanford Emergency Manual 5 in your operating room suite, and ask a registered nurse to recite the Cognitive Aid Checklist for HYPOXEMIA to you, to make sure you haven’t missed something.
The patient’s vitalsigns remained normal and the ET tube was removed. Will your anesthesia professional be a physician anesthesiologist, a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA), or an anesthesia care team made up of both? The anesthesiologist inserted a suction catheter into her mouth to remove the vomitus.
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