Post-anesthesia care unit

As the recovery room ( AWR ) or Aufwacheinheit (AWE, Eng. Mail Anaesthesia Care Unit, PACU ) is called in medicine one area in which patients who have received sedation or anesthesia ( Analgo ), as long as be monitored until their vital signs ( breathing, awareness, blood circulation ) are stabilized. A recovery room you will find accordingly in hospitals and private practices in which for surgery or diagnostic measures, patients are anesthetized or sedated. A recovery room must be equipped with appropriate monitoring equipment and is staffed by one or more anesthetic nurses. An anesthesiologist is also present or constantly on call to help with complications right away.

Monitoring refers here primarily to the circulatory parameters (blood pressure, pulse), breathing and excretion ( urine, stool, drainage systems).

A key issue is the post-operative pain management. For this different analgesics available. The occurring through pain control and consequences of anesthesia Postoperative nausea and vomiting is here as well by appropriate drugs ( anti-emetics ) treated as the postoperative shivering.