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patient was in the
recovery room, even
if they were nauseated and vomiting.
Patients were delivered to the anesthesia group without
any effort on our
GO-TO GUY Are your anesthesia providers involved in
committee meetings? If not, they should be.
part (heaven forbid
we help push a stretcher). All we had to do was give an anesthetic
and wake up the patient.
My, how times have changed.
Giving a safe anesthetic today is the bare minimum you should
expect from the anesthesia team. Your anesthetists should play an
active part in the overall effort to increase patient satisfaction, enable
efficiency and increase your competitive edge, both in the perioperative area and outside the OR.
Value-added services
Before patients ever arrive at the facility, the anesthesia team should
help ensure on-time starts, decrease cancellations, and address
patient clinical and billing concerns.
For example, patients can fill out pre-anesthesia questionnaires electronically and have them delivered straight to the anesthesia team
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