This customizable document, Post Anesthesia Care of Critical Care Patients, is taken from MCN Healthcare’s Intensive Care Unit Policy and Procedure Manual. For more than 20 years, MCN has been the health care industry’s leading provider of policy and procedure templates, forms, competencies and other compliance tools.

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Here is some sample content from Post Anesthesia Care of Critical Care Patients:

	POLICY: Patients returning from surgery to the critical care units will receive a level of post anesthesia care consistent with Post Anesthesia Care Unit Standards. GUIDELINES: Patients being placed in the ICU following an operative procedure will be recovered in the PACU unless there are special circumstances that would make recovery in the ICU more appropriate. When it is deemed advisable, by either the anesthesiologist or the surgeon, that a patient bypass the PACU and return directly to the ICU from the operating room, a nurse qualified in post anesthesia recovery will assume...
Second excerpt:
	...from their care and will document such in the medical record. All patients being recovered in ICU must have oxygen, suction, Ambu bag, airway and pulse oximetry equipment in the room prior to the patient's arrival. All patients being recovered in ICU will be considered 1:1 during the period of recovery. All patients returning directly to the critical care units for recovery will have the preprinted post anesthesia care unit orders completed and signed by an anesthesiologist. ICU...