What happens immediately after surgery?

What happens immediately after surgery?

Samuel Seelig (Anesthesiologist, Los Angeles, California) gives expert video advice on: What is an 'anesthesiologist'?; What happens immediately after surgery? and more...

Immediately after any surgery, the patient is brought to the recovery room. The patient is then hooked up to very similar monitors that were used in the operating room. In the recovery room, the blood pressure, the EKG and the pulse oximeter are re-applied and the nurse in the recovery room will monitor the patient in that manner. When we bring the patient to the recovery room we present to that patient, and we explain what surgery was performed, how that patient did, and if any untoward reactions occurred we would tell the nurse at that time. The patient presentation would be very thorough and would include any pertinent data that the recovery nurse might need to know.