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Definition of Recovery room
1. Noun. A hospital room for the care of patients immediately after surgery.
Medical Definition of Recovery room
1. Hospital unit providing continuous monitoring of the patient following anaesthesia. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recovery Room
Literary usage of Recovery room
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Surgical after-treatment: a manual of the conduct of surgical convalescence by Le Roi Goddard Crandon (1910)
"recovery room To aid an unconscious person to vomit the head should not merely
be turned over, but the patient should be lifted by the shoulder over on the ..."
2. Hospital management by Charlotte A. Aikens (1911)
"Some hospitals have a recovery room near the operating-room; others have their
recovery room off the main surgical ward. Our preference is to have it in ..."
3. Dominion Dental Journal (1906)
"The patient just recovering from the anesthetic is taken into the recovery room
where another patient is vomiting, with disastrous results. ..."
4. Exit by Mihai Nadin (2004)
"This was no longer the recovery room. It should probably be called the miracle
station. ... recovery room ..."
5. Military Hospitals: Hearings Before the Committee on Public Buildings and by United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (1919)
"Omit one df the lavatories in the recovery room. ... Interchange wash-up room
with the recovery room adjacent to the sterile-supply room, placing the two ..."
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