Does your PACU recover general anesthesia c-sections?

Mar 27, 2009 11:17 AM

by Judycpan

Our hospital has a PACU nurse go to the L/D unit to recover any general anesthesia c-sections patients. We rotate this duty and it is very rare for a case to go general so the PACU nurse may have cared for a c-section patient only once every 6-9 months.

bonnie44 · Apr 01, 2009, 02:46 PM

Re: Does your PACU recover general anesthesia c-sections?

We also go to L/D to recover pt with general anesthesia. We also don't do it too often. The L/D takes care of checking fundus and other OB things while we do our normal monitoring and pain control.

NurseJR08 · Apr 17, 2009, 03:55 PM

Re: Does your PACU recover general anesthesia c-sections?

Our PACU gets crash c-sections/c-sections that have had general. We dont go to L/D. They do have their own operating rooms and the nurses their recover if they are epidurals. but if they get put to sleep they are in our OR and then come to PACU. They are usually accompanied by an L/D nurse who stays to help settle the patient and answer questions but they dont stay the whole recovery period.

anne74 · May 29, 2009, 05:57 PM

Re: Does your PACU recover general anesthesia c-sections?

We do occasionally get general c-sections. We just make sure they're stable and quickly ship them back to the L & D floor, so they can do the fundus checks, etc.

gambutrol · May 29, 2009, 08:12 PM

Re: Does your PACU recover general anesthesia c-sections?

all c section post-op comes into our pacu

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Does your PACU recover general anesthesia c-sections?

Does your PACU recover general anesthesia c-sections?

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