Recovery room
As the recovery room (AWR, Engl. Recovery room ) or Aufwacheinheit (AWE, Engl. Post Anesthesia Care Unit , PACU) is called in the medicine an area where patients having a general anesthetic , sedation or regional anesthesia have received while monitoring, until their vital functions ( breathing , consciousness , blood circulation ) are rated as stable.
A recovery room can accordingly be found in hospitals or medical practices, in which patients are anesthetized or sedated for operations or diagnostic measures. For practical reasons (short distances) it is usually set up in the immediate vicinity of the operating room or surgery room
A first recovery room with three beds existed in 1923 at Johns Hopkins Hospital for neurosurgical patients.
A recovery room must be equipped with appropriate monitoring and therapy equipment , such as a defibrillator , and is staffed by one or more health and nursing staff , some with appropriate specialist training ( anesthesia nurses ). An anesthesiologist is also present or on call to provide immediate help in the event of complications.
The monitoring primarily relates to the circulatory parameters (blood pressure, pulse), breathing and excretions ( urine , stool , drainage systems ).
Postoperative pain therapy is a central point . Various analgesics are available for this. The symptoms of postoperative nausea and vomiting caused by pain relief and the effects of anesthesia are treated in the recovery room with appropriate medication ( antiemetics ), as is postoperative tremors .
literature
- Monitoring after anesthetic procedures. Recommendation of the German Society for Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine and the Professional Association of German Anesthesiologists . Resolution of the BDA Presidium of March 13, 2009 in Bonn and resolution of the DGAI Executive Committee of March 25, 2009 in Nuremberg.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Heck, Michael Fresenius: Repetitorium Anaesthesiologie. Preparation for the anesthesiological specialist examination and the European diploma in anesthesiology. 3rd, completely revised edition. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York et al. 2001, ISBN 3-540-67331-8 , p. 803.