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Archive > May, 2006 Vol. VII, No. 5
How Do Your Monitoring Practices Measure Up?
Find out if you are over- or under-monitoring your surgical patients during anesthesia.
Dianne Taylor, Contributing Editor

In these days of consciousness monitors, pulse oximeters, capnography and a host of other modern monitoring options, how do you know if you're monitoring all of your surgical patients effectively? Are you over-relying on your machines at the expense of clinical observation? Or are you foregoing a technology that could help ensure the safety of your patients? To get an idea of how practitioners are monitoring patients during anesthesia, we conducted a survey. Nearly 250 readers weighed in, and here's what they had to say.

Categories: Anesthesia, Equipping Your OR, Reader Surveys, Patient Management
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