Surgical Services
The Surgical Services department maintains 24-hour services to meet the needs of the surgical patient. The department consists of four areas:
Operating Room
The Operating Suite is located on the second floor and consists
of five multipurpose rooms, one cysto/urology room, and two
endoscopy rooms. Patients of all ages, outpatients and inpatients,
may undergo general surgery, orthopedic, thoracic, vascular, ENT,
ophthamologic, urologic, dental, OB/GYN, podiatric procedures,
and plastic surgery. Advanced techniques of surgical intervention
include laproscopic and laser surgery.
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Post Anesthesia Care Unit (Recovery Room)
The Post Operative Care Unit provides comprehensive care for all
surgical patients recovering from local, regional, or general
anesthesia. The RN staff is responsible for and skilled in assessing,
planning, intervening, and evaluating patients in collaboration with
the Anesthesia department and the surgeons. Most of all, the staff
is sensitive to the patient's need to be assured that he will be
cared for as a special person and help him understand what is
occurring.
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Day Surgery Unit
Day Surgery Unit personnel are responsible for pre-admission
teaching and evaluation of patients and families care throughout
the patients stay and coordinating discharge instructions postoperative
teaching and discharge. This unit is for patients who will be admitted,
operated on and sent home, all within 24 hours.
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Anesthesia
The Anesthesia department of Carteret General Hospital is under
the direction of two physicians who are board certified
anesthesiologists. The anesthesiologists or nurse anesthetists
provides anesthesia service 24 hours a day for inpatients,
outpatients, and emergency patients requiring surgical procedures.
The types of services provided include care of the patient in the
surgical setting along with emergency airway management in all
areas of the hospital, standing by for women in labor utilizing
epidurals, and acute postoperative pain management.
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