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©PREP4EXAMS@2024 [REAL-EXAM-DUMPS] Wednesday, July 31, 2024 9:10 AM 1 PACU Things to Know Practice Questions and Answers (100% Pass) Role of the PACU nurse - ️️ PACU nurse helps patients recover from the effects of anesthesia. (helps them recover ABC) Specifics: 1. Receive report from t...

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©PREP4EXAMS@2024 [REAL-EXAM-DUMPS] Wednesday, July 31, 2024 9:10 AM




PACU Things to Know Practice Questions and
Answers (100% Pass)



Role of the PACU nurse - ✔️✔️PACU nurse helps patients recover from the effects of

anesthesia. (helps them recover ABC)




Specifics:


1. Receive report from the anesthetist, Assess wound.


2. Monitor VS every 15 minutes and chart


3. Manage pain and n/v with doctor ordered meds. (IV push, oxygen, encourage deep

breathing)


4. patients wake up in 15 to 30 minutes to become fully awake and become VS stable;


5. know that older adults, COPD, upper ab surgery, thoracic surgery many need more

oxygen


6. know that longer surgeries build higher concentrations of anesthetic in their tissues ->

they wake up more slowly




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, ©PREP4EXAMS@2024 [REAL-EXAM-DUMPS] Wednesday, July 31, 2024 9:10 AM


7. know that people with liver, kidney problem recover more slowly from anesthesia..

(metabolism, excretion problem?)


Adrete score - ✔️✔️Activity: 2. Moves well


Respiration: 2. Breaths deeply and coughs


Circulation: 2. BP within 20 of preanesthetic level


Consiousness: 2. Fully Awake


O2Sat: 2: greater than 92; 1: greater than 90% on supplemental O2




Generally, to be discharged from PACU patients must be:


1. awake and oriented


2. have clear airways, can breathe autonomously


3. acceptable vital signs for 15-30 mins


4. tolerates pain; extra 20 mins after pain med administration


5. not vomiting


6. not hypothermic


7. not bleeding


8. patients with regional anesthesia must be able to feel and move extremities..




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