Yes, we have done this but the practice may cease. We just started
doing angioplasty and we have a neuroscience program that requires an
empty bed to be available at all times - especially since we have a
shortage of telemetry beds. This past weekend I had to keep the
recovery room open through the night as I did not have a code bed.
It has been a sore subject at our hospiatl too.

Bonnie


--- In NIHMBL@yahoogroups.com, christian <comixreadr@...> wrote:
>
> I'm glad this came up. At our institution, the ICU
> has to recover PACU patients (ALL PACU patients) in
> the off hours (after 9 p.m.). Does anyone else do
> this? It's been a bone of contention with our staff
> for a LONG time. WE recover OUR own patients (those
> that WERE ICU/CCU admissions). The charge nurse in
> ICU is responsible for doing recovering ALL PACU
> patients but he/she could be better utilized in
> assisting the other RN'S with THEIR high-acuity unit
> patients, instead of recovering a post-op pt, who may
> be discharged home or admitted to Med/Surg. Any
> thoughts?
> Christian
> --- Kathleen Becker <beckerkathleen@...>
> wrote:
>
> > --- In NIHMBL@yahoogroups.com, Anne Fereday
> > <feredaa@> wrote:
> > >
> > > If the patient is intubated we recover the patient
> > in ICU.
> > >
> > > AGNES MARCORDE-LUCERO <agnes_lucero@> wrote:
> > When your
> > ICU patient goes to the OR, are they recovered in
> > PACU
> > > before transporting them back to ICU? or do they
> > go back straight
> > to
> > > ICU after the surgical procedure? I would like to
> > find out what
> > most
> > > institutions are doing, any policy you can share
> > with me? Thank you
> > > very much for any information you can share.
> > >
> > > Agnes Lucero, MS, APRN, BC, CCRN
> > > St. Barnabas Hospital
> > > Bronx, NY
> > >
> > > If they are vented, they come directly back to the
> > ICU, accompanied
> > by anesthesia, RN, etc. Routine patients dogoto the
> > PACU. Hope that
> > helps. Our cardiac surgeries come from CVOR
> > directlyto CVU also.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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