Exam 1 - PACU (Nursing 2) 2025/2026
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PACU stands for: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔post-anesthesia care unit
The primary purpose of the PACU is: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔ongoing critical
evaluation and stabilization of pt.
Upon admission, the pt must be: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔placed on/with EKG,
pulse ox, BP cuff, and oxygen
When a pt arrives in PACU, the ___ gives report. - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔CRNA/Anesth.
Phase 1: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Intense monitoring, preparing pt for d/c or
inpatient unit
Phase 2: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Preparing pt for Phase III, home, or rehab facility
Phase 3: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Preparing pt for self care, observation, rehab
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, Fast tracking: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Pt admitted to PACU after local or regional
anesthesia
Intraoperative management while giving admission report: - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔what anesthesia was used, meds given, EBL, fluid replacement totals,
urine output
Intraoperative course while giving admission report: - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔unexpected anesthetic events/reactions, VS, monitoring trends, lab
results
PACU assessment priority: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Adequacy of airway (rate,
rhythm, accessory muscles, breath sounds, O2 sat)
Pts at higher risk in PACU: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔those that received general,
elderly, smokers/lung disease, obese, pts that went under
thoracic/airway/abd surgery
Obese pts are at a higher risk in PACU due to: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔adipose
tissue absorbing anesthesia and slowly releasing over time, they're harder
to wake
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PACU stands for: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔post-anesthesia care unit
The primary purpose of the PACU is: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔ongoing critical
evaluation and stabilization of pt.
Upon admission, the pt must be: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔placed on/with EKG,
pulse ox, BP cuff, and oxygen
When a pt arrives in PACU, the ___ gives report. - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔CRNA/Anesth.
Phase 1: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Intense monitoring, preparing pt for d/c or
inpatient unit
Phase 2: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Preparing pt for Phase III, home, or rehab facility
Phase 3: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Preparing pt for self care, observation, rehab
COPYRIGHT©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY
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STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, Fast tracking: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Pt admitted to PACU after local or regional
anesthesia
Intraoperative management while giving admission report: - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔what anesthesia was used, meds given, EBL, fluid replacement totals,
urine output
Intraoperative course while giving admission report: - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔unexpected anesthetic events/reactions, VS, monitoring trends, lab
results
PACU assessment priority: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Adequacy of airway (rate,
rhythm, accessory muscles, breath sounds, O2 sat)
Pts at higher risk in PACU: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔those that received general,
elderly, smokers/lung disease, obese, pts that went under
thoracic/airway/abd surgery
Obese pts are at a higher risk in PACU due to: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔adipose
tissue absorbing anesthesia and slowly releasing over time, they're harder
to wake
COPYRIGHT©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY
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STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
