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NO LOITERING Our reader survey uncovered many ways to fast track patients in PACU.
Strategies to keep your PACU moving.
Dan O'Connor | Editor-in-Chief
Can recovery rooms learn a lesson from the ER's philosophy of "treat 'em and street 'em?" In the harsh reality of the ER, it's get the patients in, stabilize them, treat them and send them back out the door. In a kinder, gentler way, "treat 'em and street 'em" can also apply to the PACU. As Debbie Perdue, CST, manager at the First Hill
Surgery Center in Seattle, Wash., puts it, "We like to remind patients how much more comfortable they'll be at home in their own bed."
Pre-op is perhaps the best place to start greasing the skids for a short stay in PACU. For it's there where you can prevent post-op pain
