The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 2, 2023

Washington University has expanded the ACT to include the Recovery Control Tower, which provides similar surveillance over patients in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU). This photograph below depicts the Anesthesia Control Tower manpower at work at Barnes Jewish Hospital at Washington University in St.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The EMR shows standard of care anesthetic management for the surgery, but in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) the patient develops shortness of breath, chest pain, and needs to be reintubated and sent to the Intensive Care Unit. A 55-year-old man is scheduled for a left hip replacement.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 13, 2020

If the procedure was an outpatient surgery, you will leave the facility and return home after you’ve recovered from anesthesia. Outpatient surgeries have the advantage of not requiring a hospital bed or an ICU bed/ventilator, which leaves these supplies available if a resurgence of COVID occurs in the community.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 30, 2024

When you want to accelerate the heart rate in the operating room or the post anesthesia care unit, use the first drug recommended in the ACLS and American Heart Association bradycardia algorithms—and that drug is atropine. Robinul, or glycopyrrolate, is an anticholinergic drug used almost exclusively by anesthesiologists.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JUNE 26, 2022

These rotations of an anesthesia resident develop the young doctor into a clinician comfortable in preoperative assessment and management, in the intraoperative administration of anesthesia, and in the postoperative evaluation and treatment of patients.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Post Anesthesia Care Unit 1145 hours—You push the gurney into the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU), and into a parking berth staffed by a different registered nurse and another battery of vital signs monitors.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 11, 2020

At this point Dr. A is satisfied that the patient is stable, and the staff prepares to transfer the patient to the post anesthesia care unit (PACU). A second dose of IV labetalol brings the heart rate to 70 and the MAP to 80 within another two minutes. The troponin levels are found to be low, indicating no heart damage occurred.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JULY 11, 2019

Her breathing tube had been removed, but she developed upper airway obstruction in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) and needed urgent reintubation. She was extubated one hour later at the surgery center after treatment with diuretic, oxygen, and ventilation via the tube.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 31, 2015

You react quickly to support Airway –Breathing- Circulation and apply all your knowledge of the appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic action steps. Will you perform perfectly?

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 28, 2018

The surgery proceeded as scheduled, with sevoflurane as maintenance anesthesia. At the conclusion of surgery, the patient was extubated awake and taken to the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) in stable condition. The patient was sedate, calm, comfortable, and tolerated the PACU care well.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2017

You utilize the current multimodal strategies for operating room anesthesia and postoperative pain reduction, including an ultrasound-guided adductor canal block with 0.5% The patient does well, and is discharged from the Post Anesthesia Care Unit in excellent condition.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

JANUARY 19, 2017

Their patients are obtunded on arrival to the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) after surgery, and they rely on the PACU nursing staff to complete the job of anesthesia wake up. Learn how to wake up patients promptly.

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Sullivan Healthcare Consulting

JUNE 4, 2024

Some vital areas for communication include: Surgeon to patient Surgeon to scheduling Patient to pre-anesthesia testing Pre-surgical screeners to anesthesia Pre-surgical screeners to pre-op Pre-op to OR OR to post-anesthesia care unit When information flows between these points in the patient’s care journey, schedules are efficient and accurate, surgeons (..)

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Make sure you have preoperative informed consent for general anesthesia as a back up, because it’s likely you’ll need to administer it. A patient who’s been in the PACU (Post Anesthesia Care Unit) for an hour tells you, “I want more intravenous narcotics.”

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EARN Cares

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Post Anesthesia Care Nurse Resume Example The Post Anesthesia Care Nurse (PACU RN) is responsible for providing direct patient care to patients immediately after surgery as they recover from anesthesia. C lick here to view our Post Anesthesia Care Nurse Resume Template 29.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Imagine this scenario: You’ve just finished anesthetizing a patient in a hospital setting, and the patient now requires transport from the operating room (OR) to the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU).

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Somnia

MAY 31, 2024

Performance Deficiencies When assessing the anesthesia team’s performance, focus on the quality metrics they use and their approach to achieving efficiency. Transparency is key to monitoring: Slow case turnovers in the OR and Post-Anesthesia Care Unit. Delayed first-case starts. Inadequate OR coverage.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 22, 2018

I stay with the child until the anesthetic depth has dissipated, the breathing tube is removed, and the child is awake and safe with the recovery room nurse in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit. My greatest joy of being a doctor comes immediately after the conclusion of a pediatric anesthetic.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

APRIL 12, 2021

A 2017 anesthesia study stated that “for optimal patient care through the perioperative period, it is critical to obtain information about patient drug use and other associated treatment in order to construct an appropriate anesthetic plan, including specific considerations during surgery, emergence, and in the post anesthesia care unit.”

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The Anesthesia Consultant

AUGUST 17, 2020

Some reports reveal only minor issues such as prolonged post-operative nausea and vomiting, or a prolonged Post Anesthesia Care Unit stay. Some Adverse Events reports are more significant than others.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 4, 2016

The surgery and anesthesia proceed uneventfully. The patient is awakened from general anesthesia and taken to the Post Anesthesia Care Unit. During the informed consent, the anesthesiologist tells the patient that risks involving the heart, the lungs, or the brain are small but not zero.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

SS will not be frequently used in Post Anesthesia Care Units, Intensive Care Units, or the Emergency Department, because patients in these settings all have intravenous lines in place, and can receive traditional IV narcotics as needed.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MAY 10, 2016

Sugammadex reversal can make the duration of a rocuronium motor block almost as short acting as a succinylcholine motor block, and sugammadex can also eliminate complications in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit due to residual postoperative muscle paralysis.

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The Anesthesia Consultant

MARCH 2, 2018

I tell the patient that after the surgery, in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit, they will be awake and able to make their own decisions whether they desire additional doses of intravenous narcotics or not, with the full knowledge that extra doses of narcotics may bring extra risk of sedation and nausea.

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