Does your PACU recover general anesthesia c-sections?

[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]

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]

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]

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]

all c section post-op comes into our pacu

[shellabelle]

We recover all women's surgeries except for breast augmentations. This includes general or spinal c-sections, D&C, LEEP, PPTL, hysterectomy, breast reductions, and a smattering of other surgeries. The only postpartal patients L&D recovers are lady partsl deliveries.

[sm9796]

We recover all C-section patients. They get operated on in our OR, L&D don't have their own theatre.

It doesn't really seem safe to recover a GA patient away from PACU. What if they go into laryngospasm and experienced help is much further away.