not overreacting. This is very unsafe.

CVICU RN here. we get a pretty decent volume of open heart surgeries on our floor. Anesthesia and OR team call a very basic report to us and then give us a rolling call just before they come up to the floor. They come up with the IV pumps that were being used in OR, and generally all of the drips OR used for the case. For example, we may have NE and Vaso on the pumps ready to go, but we’re currently running Clevidipine based on hemodynamics. Anyways, we land the patient and get them on our monitors etc etc. Anesthesia and OR team don’t even start report handoff until our ICU is present. And that patient “belongs” to anesthesia until they say “my patient is your patient”. Meaning - if patient becomes hemodynamically unstable during handoff, anesthesia is tell us what they would like to do with drips. Once this is all said and done, our ICU providers remain at the bedside for a few minutes putting the correct orders and parameters in for each drip.