PACU Rotation Teaching Topics Check List



PACU Rotation Teaching Topics Check List

1. Criteria for PACU admission and discharge.

2. Differential diagnosis and treatment for hypertension and hypotension.

3. Differential diagnosis and treatment for dysrrhythmias.

4. Diagnosis and treatment of myocardial ischemia and infarction.

5. Differential diagnosis and treatment for hypoxemia and hypoventilation.

6. Differential diagnosis and management of airway obstruction.

7. Differential diagnosis and management of anuria, oliguria, and polyuria.

8. Differential diagnosis and management of electrolyte abnormalities (hyperkalemia, hypokalemia, hyponatremia, hypernatremia, hypocalcemia).

9. Differential diagnosis and treatment of delayed awakening and emergence delirium.

10. Acute pain management in the PACU.

11. Management of postoperative nausea and vomiting.

12. Differential diagnosis and management of metabolic derangement (acidosis, hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia, hypothermia, hyperthermia).

13. Differential diagnosis and treatment of the bleeding patient and coagulopathy.

14. Indications, rationale, and methods of prophylactic perioperative beta blocker therapy.

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