General Anesthesia Supervision Vital Signs 
The Anesthesia Consultant
OCTOBER 14, 2022
When you arrive at the PACU, a nurse reattaches your patient to the vital sign monitors, and discovers that the patient’s oxygen saturation has dropped from 100% in the OR to a severely low value of 80% in the PACU. Whether the monitor readings are recorded in a vital sign readout of the EMR is a less important factor.
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). You may have nausea after general anesthesia.
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The Anesthesia Consultant
JULY 12, 2021
Vigilance regarding a sleeping patient’s vital signs was always paramount, but the constant effort to be vigilant could be mind-numbing. Let’s look at the specific ways the internet has changed anesthesia practice: Electronic Medical Record anesthesia intraoperative vital signs record Electronic medical records (EMRs).
The Anesthesia Consultant
OCTOBER 8, 2019
The most invasive type of airway tube used in anesthesia is called an endotracheal tube, or ET tube. At the onset of general anesthesia anesthesiologists place an ET tube through the mouth, past the larynx (voice box), and into the trachea (windpipe). The patient’s vital signs remained normal and the ET tube was removed.
The Anesthesia Consultant
AUGUST 7, 2017
Regarding anesthesiology, I expect future AIM robots will be hyperattentive monitoring devices which follow the vital signs of anesthetized patients, and then utilize feedback loops to titrate or adjust the depth of anesthetic drugs as indicated by these vital signs. Will I Have a Breathing Tube During Anesthesia?
The Anesthesia Consultant
FEBRUARY 6, 2019
There are multiple different models of anesthesia care. 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). Why Did Take Me So Long To Wake From General Anesthesia? Sound scary?
The Anesthesia Consultant
MAY 2, 2023
Alerts or abnormal vital signs and laboratory results are represented by squares and triangles, respectively. The Tower Mode view looks like this (Figure 1): Figure 1 Census View, Anesthesia Tower The Tower Mode includes a display for each individual patient (Figure 2 below). Will I Have a Breathing Tube During Anesthesia?
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