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Post-Anesthesia Recovery - Unit |
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| Director | Dr. Avi Weinbroum | | Head nurse | Mrs. Nili Hoffman |
Main description
The Post-Anesthesia Care Unit of the Tel Aviv Medical Center combines two areas essential to the welfare of emergency and elective surgical patients: the Pre-operative Admission Area and the Post-Anesthesia Area. It houses a total of 35 beds and is thus the largest of its kind in Israel, taking care of approximately 12,000 surgical patients per year. The Unit has a nursing staff of some 20 registered nurses.
In the preoperative period, the patient arrives at the Pre-operative Admission Area where a nurse examines him and checks the surgical site and vital signs (including blood-oxygen saturation). All information is recorded in the patient's medical file. The patient is then given preoperative medications (”premedication”) according to the orders of the anesthesiologist who had seen him previously or ad hoc. Parents of children and infants are allowed to accompany their child until he/she enters the operating room itself.
After surgery, patients recuperate in the Post-Anesthesia Care Area until regaining full consciousness, until respiration and hemodynamic conditions are stable and pain is controlled optimally. Parents of children and infants are present at their child's bed from the moment he/she reaches the Care Area until discharged to the ward.
Additionally, the staff of the unit responds to the needs of a variety of patients of the Medical Center:
Postoperative observation for hours or days in cases of lengthy, complicated or sophisticated surgical procedures, slow awakening or recovery or where patients require hemodynamic and/or respiratory monitoring as well as close medical/surgical observation that cannot be provided elsewhere in the hospital. Elderly patient, or critically ill patients whose conditions are not stable are also kept under observation.
Surgical patients who require close observation in the General or Surgical Intensive Care Unit but the admission to these units is not possible.
Children or infants requiring close observation or monitoring in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, which is not feasible temporarily.
Close medical observation and monitoring of patients who had been admitted via the Emergency Department in critical condition, such as partial obstruction of upper airways.
Temporary observation after nerve block for the treatment of sub-acute pain.
LocationSourasky Building, -2 basement floor
appointments972-3-697-3219/27/37 |
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