Stanford PACU Rotation Educational Site
PACU Rotation key concepts
Check List
- Criteria for PACU admission and discharge.
- Differential diagnosis and treatment for hypertension and hypotension.
- Differential diagnosis and treatment for dysrrhythmias.
- Diagnosis and treatment of myocardial ischemia and infarction.
- Differential diagnosis and treatment for hypoxemia and hypoventilation.
- Differential diagnosis and management of airway obstruction.
- Differential diagnosis and management of anuria, oliguria, and polyuria.
- Differential diagnosis and management of electrolyte abnormalities (hyperkalemia, hypokalemia, hyponatremia, hypernatremia, hypocalcemia).
- Differential diagnosis and treatment of delayed awakening and emergence delirium.
- Acute pain management in the PACU.
- Management of postoperative nausea and vomiting.
- Differential diagnosis and management of metabolic derangement (acidosis, hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia, hypothermia, hyperthermia).
- Differential diagnosis and treatment of the bleeding patient and coagulopathy.
- Indications, rationale, and methods of prophylactic perioperative beta blocker therapy.
