General Anesthesia Post-Anesthesia Care Supervision 
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). The anesthesiologist may be supervising the transfusion of blood, platelets, or plasma.
The Anesthesia Consultant
JUNE 26, 2022
By contrast, CRNAs are registered nurses experienced in intensive care or emergency room nursing, who then enter a 2 – 3 year program of learning the skills to anesthetize patients. CRNAs can now administer anesthesia independent of any physician anesthesiologist supervision in the majority of the United States.
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The Anesthesia Consultant
FEBRUARY 16, 2021
You may have nausea after general anesthesia. You’ll wake up reasonably comfortable, but as the general anesthesia wears off you’ll likely experience the onset of pain. You tape the patients eyes closed so that they do not dry out under general anesthesia. Will I Have a Breathing Tube During Anesthesia?
The Anesthesia Consultant
MAY 2, 2023
Washington University has expanded the ACT to include the Recovery Control Tower, which provides similar surveillance over patients in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU). This photograph below depicts the Anesthesia Control Tower manpower at work at Barnes Jewish Hospital at Washington University in St.
The Anesthesia Consultant
APRIL 8, 2025
I recommend copies of the Stanford Emergency Manual be present in your operating room suites, on your Code Blue carts, and in your Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) to guide A-B-C care. They can watch you for a short period of time while you supervise the safe landing of the anesthesia plane.
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