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Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU)

 
Patients are monitored for safe recovery from anesthesia and surgery during the immediate post-operative period. Each patient is continually assessed for potential nursing and medical problems.
Specialty: Post-anesthesia recovery
Capacity: 14 beds
Staff: Registered nurses, nurse externs, nursing assistants
Care focus: Primary care
Patient type: Infants through geriatric patients who have undergone simple to complex surgical procedures in all specialty areas. General Hospital’s PACU receives trauma intensive care patients with multiple medical problems, surgical inpatients and short-stay surgery patients
Phone: (304) 388-6249 Visiting hours: 11 a.m. - 8:30 p.m.

 

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