pacurn75 replied to olderthandirt51's topic in PACU
Whose course? Some are offered by people not associated with ambulatory based organizations. Look at what is covered and who is speaking. ASPAN and some others have courses that cover a lot of the...
pacurn75 replied to Mommy_of_3_in_AL..RN's topic in Gastroenterology
The last conference I went to mentioned that they are now starting to screen the "sample" for all the usual culprits (ie giardia, ova, parasites among others. Speaker said it was recommended by their...
Recovery time is very variable and will be based on procedure length, sedation used and condition of the patient. Most facilities are going to criteria-based discharge scores that allow the patient...
This is really getting to be a problem for all specialties that do same day procedures. I work in both PACU and GI. At a recent conference, we talked about it and boy, what a discussion. Some...