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CLOSE WATCH Anesthesia providers must micromanage the small details of a
patient's condition.
Why Vital Signs Are Vitally Important
Don't overlook basic monitoring
strategies to enhance safety and
efficiency.
cialty in pain management and the
Stephanie Wasek | Contributing Editor
Read on as Dr. Noback shares the prin-
medical director for Innovative
Practice Strategies in Sarasota, Fla.
ciples of good intraoperative monitor-
T
he 3 golden rules of patient
ing and how it can be used to speed
monitoring? Don't forget the
patient recoveries.
basics. Too much monitoring is
better than too little. And expect the
Better use of the basics
unexpected — be prepared to go to a
Standards of the American Society of
level of monitoring that you didn't
Anesthesiolo-gists dictate that monitor-
anticipate when the case started. So
ing for every procedure performed with
says Carl R. Noback, MD, a board-cer-
general anesthesia should include
tified anesthesiologist with a subspe-
blood pressure, EKG, end tidal CO2
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