Critical monitoring issues outside the operating room.
There is no need to reinvent the wheel to determine the need for vigilant monitoring in outside of the operating room (OOR) settings. Anesthesiologists have evolved a robust system of monitoring standards based on decades of experience in operating room environments. Every OOR location should be thoroughly evaluated and monitoring standards implemented. The standards should be periodically reviewed to avert morbidity.
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
Samuel M
SM
Galvagno
Bhavani-Shankar
BS
Kodali
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