When things go wrong

I'm not an OR nurse but I did a week in the OR as part of my Med-Surg rotation last year. I watched a total of eight surgeries and only two had any complications (though they weren't codes). Both were caused by the patients lack of sedation during the start of the procedure (knee replacements). The patients both tried to get off the table during the opening cuts and in the first replacement the patient was able to feel pain the entire procedure (which was evident when her vitals spiked during every single cut).

I was actually really concerned when the anesthesiologist told me not to worry because the Versed he pushed would make sure they didn't remember a thing.

Not sure if this is what you were looking for, but hopefully it gives you a vague idea. I had classmates that were in the OR as well and none of them witnessed anything like this with any other anesthesiologist nor did they see any problems.

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