French Public Health Code
In forcePatients admitted to a post-interventional monitoring room are cared for by one or more paramedical staff, or midwives for the procedures provided for in 1° of article D. 6124-98, assigned exclusively to this room during its period of use and whose number depends on the number of patients present.
During its period of use, any post-interventional monitoring room must always have at least one nurse trained in this type of monitoring, if possible a nurse anaesthetist.
When the room has a capacity equal to or greater than six occupied posts, the paramedical team includes at least two staff, one of whom must be a nurse trained in this type of monitoring, if possible a nurse anaesthetist.
The paramedical staff is placed under the medical responsibility of an anaesthetist-intensive care physician who intervenes without delay. This doctor :
1° Decides whether and how the patient is to be transferred to the hospital sector;
2° Authorises, with the agreement of the doctor who performed the operation, the patient's discharge from the establishment in the case of an operation performed in an alternative care structure to hospitalisation practising anaesthesia or outpatient surgery.
