The Complete Recovery Room Book (5 ed)

Hatfield,

doi:10.1093/med/9780199666041.001.0001

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“…Shortly after the first anaesthesia was administered during surgery in 1846, Florence Nightingale recognised the need for special nursing care for patients recovering from surgery and the use of ether anaesthesia (Hatfield 2014, Odom-Forren & Drain 2008. The first postanaesthesia care unit (PACU) was established in the USA in 1923 and the subsequent widespread use of anaesthesia care units has been attributed by some to a reduction in postoperative morbidity and mortality (Odom-Forren & Drain 2008, Waddle et al 1998.…”

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Clinical practice and procedures for postoperative care in Sweden: Results from a nationwide survey

Juhasz

Iversen

Samuelson³

et al. 2020

Journal of Perioperative Practice

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A nationwide survey describing Swedish post-anaesthesia care units (PACUs), n = 75 was undertaken. The patients most commonly cared for at PACUs were patients who had undergone laparoscopic surgery, 69.3%, followed by patients who had undergone minor orthopaedic surgery, 68%. At the majority of the PACUs, 86.7%, the staff cared for emergency surgery patients and 48% for day surgery patients. In 31% of the PACUs, a pain relief service was offered through a specific pain service team. During the daytime, the anaesthetist in charge most frequently worked in the operating room 42.7%, and on call in the intensive care unit, 37.3% of the time. In 88% of the PACUs, either all or most registered nurses had a specialist education at an advanced level. The most frequent ratio of registered nurses to patients was 1 to 4, 37.3%. However, Swedish PACUS are also staffed by assistant nurses and the most frequent ratio of registered nurse to assistant nurse was 1:1. Thirty-three (44%) of the PACUs had access to a physiotherapist during the daytime. Almost all PACUs (93.3%) had predetermined discharge criteria but in the majority of PACUs' high-risk patients (68%) were not followed up by an anaesthetist after discharge from the PACU.

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confidence: 99%