General surgery overflow: a new challenge for the PACU.
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● The ICU is filled and there are no available beds. ● The ICU beds are closed because of a lack of critical care nurses. ● The emergency room is backed up with patients, and this particular patient will be going to surgery in a few hours anyway. ● PACU patients have recovered and are ready for discharge to the general surgical floor, but there are no available beds. ● A patient has a severe allergic reaction to the dye during a computerized axial tomography scan and will need respiratory observation and monitoring.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of perianesthesia nursing : official journal of the American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses
دوره 17 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2002