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What is PACU, and What Does a PACU Nurse Do? 

Daily Nurse

PACU nurse’s responsibilities include closely monitoring patients’ vital signs and managing common post-operative symptoms such as pain, nausea, dizziness, and other effects of surgery and anesthesia. When they arrive in the PACU, these patients may have airways in place or, in some cases, be on ventilators.

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

GeriPal

I’d be willing to take some time on a mechanical ventilation machine to live longer.” And so the idea that patients are walking around with these on their shoulder like, “Hey, I got the mechanical ventilation preference, just want to make sure.” The vital sign tracings are very, very worrisome.