PACU questions with correct answers

What is Phase I? - Answer Immediate intensive care level recovery until standard PACU criteria are met What is Phase II? - Answer Lower level care that ensures patient is ready to go home What is Fast-Tracking? - Answer Allows for selected patients to bypass Phase I and go directly to Phase II MAC anesthesia and some regional (Bier Blocks) Patients receiving general anesthesia should go to Ph I Complications of awakening? - Answer Airway obstruction, shivering, agitation, delirium, pain, N/V, hypothermia, and autonomic instability Speed of emergence with Inhalation Agents? - Answer Directly proportional to alveolar ventilation Inversely proportional to volatile agents' blood solubility Increased duration of anesthesia... increases emergence (total tissue uptake) Pharmacokinetics of IV? - Answer absorption redistribution elimination