Writing Orders for Oral Medication
When writing for PO meds at the time of surgery, specifically for first cases, please make sure orders are written 30 minutes prior to case start (7:00 AM M/T/Th, 7:30 AM W/F). After this time, you will be required to go through pharmacy or personally to the AcuDose for any PO meds and hand-deliver them to the patient.
In cases where you cannot be at the bedside personally to take care of this, and there is no resident on the case, other arrangements may need to be made. Please either ask the overnight resident or another faculty member for help writing the orders or enter the orders in Wiz.
Medications can be given at any time. We simply ask that handwritten orders for PO meds be written prior to 30 minutes before case start time. Please contact Patrick Henson for more information.
