Post-anesthesia Care Unit
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Provides immediate post-op observation and stabilization of patients following surgical operations and anaesthesia. Patients are usually held in such facilities for a limited amount of time and have to meet set physiological aspects before being transferred back to award with a qualified nurse escort. Owing to high patient flow in recovery units, and to the bed management cycle, if a patient breaches a time frame and is too unstable to be transferred back to the award, they are normally transferred to an intensive care unit in order to receive progressive treatment.