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Anesthesia Nursing
ANESTHESIA NURSING
Tasks and areas of work
The tasks of anesthesia nursing include, in particular, preparations for operations and medical assistance. An anesthesiologist and an anesthesia nurse work together as a team, with the nurse preparing and regularly checking the anesthesia equipment, the monitoring monitors and other monitoring equipment, preparing the anesthetics and other required medication.
The nurse administers the required medication and infusions according to the doctor's instructions and assists with the induction, maintenance and withdrawal of anesthesia.
Alongside the anaesthetist, the anaesthesia nurse is responsible for handing over the patient to the recovery room, which is staffed by anaesthesia personnel here at the hospital, for the post-processing of the anaesthesia workstation and the hygienically correct reprocessing of used materials.
Depending on the type of operation, patients are closely monitored in the recovery room for up to several hours with the help of the surveillance monitor before being transferred back to the ward.
Other activities of the anesthesia nurse here at Mannheim Hospital, in cooperation with the anesthesiologist, include taking over and caring for severely injured patients in the shock room and performing in-house resuscitations.
Field service
Anesthesia workplace outside an operating theater that requires a high degree of professional competence and flexibility.
One specialist and one nurse work as a team to administer
- approx. 860 anaesthesias and sedations for diagnostic procedures
- approx. 250 anaesthetics for neuroradiological procedures
- and approx. 650 short anaesthetics with monitoring during electroconvulsive therapy at the Central Institute of Mental Health
for mental health. In addition, the "field service" is responsible for in-hospital emergencies, of which there are around 100 to 150 per year.
The field service is also responsible for the nursing of patients arriving via the "shock room" and the subsequent diagnostics in accordance with the shock room protocol.
Recovery room
An anesthesia workstation with monitoring units that requires a very high level of professional and social competence in the context of post-operative monitoring.
Independent action within the framework of the established medication standards is just as important as very good patient observation in order to be able to react immediately to changes in the patient's condition.
At the UMM, we have 5 recovery rooms of different sizes, which are attached to the various departments.
Contact us
Cornelia Muley
Anesthesia Nursing
University Medicine Mannheim
Theodor Kutzer Ufer 1-3
68167 Mannheim
+49 621 383 6660
cornelia.muley@umm.de
Head of the department: Florian Wittmann
