How to organize an anesthesia care plan

A practical organization guide for SRNAs, residents, and anesthesia clinicians. Updated September 23, 2026 · GlottaVue / ContronX Design L.L.C.

An anesthesia care plan is easier to review when it follows the sequence of the case. This guide explains how to organize your preparation in GlottaVue, from the information you have before the procedure to recovery and handoff. It is a workflow guide, not a treatment protocol or a substitute for your program’s requirements.

1. Gather the patient and procedure context

Choose the procedure and organize the history available to you. Keep the procedure, relevant conditions, home medications, allergies and reported reactions, previous surgery, and prior anesthesia experience together. Distinguish documented information from something you still need to establish.

In the care-plan builder, work through the patient, procedure, and history sections. Related offline references can help you find the material you want to review. A selected reference is background information; it does not establish a finding for the patient.

2. Keep preoperative assessment separate

Bring the available assessment information into its own section so a reviewer can find it quickly. Record only what you know, and track unresolved questions for discussion with your instructor or supervising clinician. Missing information should not be interpreted as a normal result.

A useful organizing question is: “What information would change the plan?” Your clinical team and local protocols determine the assessment and any necessary testing. The app does not independently perform that assessment.

3. Organize the anesthetic approach and intraoperative plan

Describe the proposed anesthetic technique and airway approach separately. Then organize positioning, monitoring, equipment, access, ventilation, and IV-fluid planning so they are easy to review together. Include the reasoning and alternatives you intend to discuss, rather than a list of unrelated facts.

GlottaVue connects the plan to procedure, disease, medication, and equipment references. The main dosing workflow uses pre-generated tables for the selected age and pre-set weight. Other tools, including the adult ventilator tool in the 1.6.4 update, may calculate values from their own inputs. Verify the input method and scope of the tool you are using.

4. Put medications in the order of the case

Work through the medication sequence from induction through maintenance and emergence, then recovery. Check that each included medication has the intended role, route, units, and dose context. Resolve duplicate or conflicting entries before using or sharing the plan.

The 1.6.4 care-plan update presents user-selected and suggested medications together in a more linear document. Regardless of where a suggestion originated, it still needs independent clinical review. Do not infer that a displayed dose establishes suitability or checks all interactions.

5. Finish with postoperative assessment and PACU handoff

Keep the recovery and handoff portion at the end of the plan. Organize the postoperative issues your team intends to reassess and communicate. This creates a readable progression from what is known before the case to what needs follow-up afterward.

The saved plan is a preparation aid. It is not an electronic health record, an order set, or documentation that care has been delivered.

6. Review, save, and export deliberately

Before exporting, read the whole document. Verify the case inputs, proposed decisions, medication entries, missing information, and source limitations. Review clinical content with the appropriate supervisor and against your institution’s protocols.

You can explicitly save a plan locally or export it as a PDF or Word document. Saved inputs remain on the device until deleted and may be included in operating-system backups. Exported files are handled by the destination you choose. Optional manual Apple sync has a separate data flow; see the GlottaVue app privacy policy.

Where optional AI fits

AI synthesis can help reorganize the assembled draft and suggest points for review after you read and accept the consent disclosure. It requires an internet connection and sends the submitted details through GlottaVue’s backend to DeepSeek. Do not submit identifying or confidential information.

AI can be incorrect, omit important context, or have limited retrieved evidence. The presence of citations does not mean every statement has been verified. Keep the clinician’s assessment, source review, and final decisions central to the workflow. You can use the offline builder without requesting AI.

Try one preparation workflow

Download the free app, choose a fictional procedure, organize its history and assessment, review the related references, and export a draft. Notice where the workflow helps and where it needs improvement. Share product feedback with support@glottavue.com, without patient information.

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Version note: 1.6.4 is available on Google Play and awaiting Apple approval. Features described as part of that update may not yet appear on iPhone or iPad. This guide covers organization and app use, not patient-specific medical advice.