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Patients believe they are asleep during their operation: they are not asleep, they are in a
reversible drug- induced coma. Emergence from general anaesthesia is a passive process
and depends on the length of time, the amount and potency of the drugs given and the
patient’s physiology. The return to spontaneous respiration is one of the first signs of
recovery.
This corresponds to brain stem function returning. Eye opening is a late sign
of recovery requiring cortical function. Most patients recover consciousness slowly and
are unable to care for themselves. This is a period of extreme physiological insults: pain,
hypothermia, hypoxia, acid– base disturbance and shifts in blood volume. Not only do
the recovery room staff have to adeptly manage comatose and physiologically unstable
patients, but also deal with the early postoperative care of surgical patients and attend
to drips, drains and dressings. For this reason, two nurses should always attend patients
arriving in the recovery room.
The recovery room is a critical care unit where necessary skills and equipment are gathered
in the one place. Here the care of patients passes safely from the intensive monitoring
in the operating theatre to the wards. Before recovery rooms became available, more
than half the deaths in the immediate postoperative period occurred from preventable
conditions such as airway obstruction, aspiration of stomach contents, and haemorrhagic
shock.This book is to help you to manage day- to- day problems that occur in recovery rooms.
In teaching and specialist hospitals there are people around to ask for help or advice. But,
at times in most hospitals, you will need to make difficult decisions on your own. Most
recovery rooms will have computer access and can refer to FOAM1 (Free Open Access
Medical Education). Be aware there is no real- time peer review and medical knowledgeis not always simple. This book should help you make these decisions. Begin to read the
book anywhere.