Anesthesia

AORN to update guidelines for local anesthesia care

The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses plans to release an update to its 2007 Recommended Practices for Managing the Patient Receiving Local Anesthesia next year.

Heather Punke

Monday, November 17th, 2014

Mary Ogg, MSN, RN, a perioperative nursing specialist and lead author of the 2015 Guidelines for Care of the Patient Receiving Local Anesthesia, recently shared five updates to previous recommendations with Periop Insider, AORN’s weekly newsletter.

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