Post Anesthesia Care Assessment

[Pinkegg]

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Trying to gauge how other groups do this. It will probably differ depending if people are paper or electronic, but how thorough and when do you guys do the "48 hr post anesthesia care assessment?" I know how it's SUPPOSED to be done in theory, but I have trouble believing that's how people actually perform it.

So how do you guys do it? Immediately postop, right before discharge, some other time? Canned vague statements, actual individualized vitals, exam, etc? Separate note, statement on the anesthesia record itself?

I ask because our group currently has a canned statement printed on our paper record that we attest to with a signature. We are transitioning to electronic and they want us to create a whole separate document with its own set of various clicks and whatnot and it seems cumbersome.

 

[sigrhoillusion]

I think our hospital does a call for any any outpatient procedure. I believe APNs or another form of ancillary staff performs hse. Obviously if there's an issue, the anesthesia provider should make contact. Inpatients/ICU admissions usually were seen by the provider or an anesthesiologist in the ICU which had a canned check off sheet with rom to write note.