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You are called to evaluate a 4-year-old healthy child who is in the postanesthesia care unit (PACU) and in severe pain after orthopedic surgery. You will need to answer questions as to how to evaluate a patient in pain in the PACU and the options available to control such pain. Regional analgesia vs. systemic analgesics are discussed. Issues concerning cardiopulmonary stability are reviewed in additional questions. Other issues confronting you are nausea and persistent vomiting in an adolescent female.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Joseph P. Cravero MD, FAAP

  2. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Joseph P. Cravero MD, FAAP

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  1. Senior Associate in Perioperative Anesthesia, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Robert S. Holzman

  2. Senior Associate in Perioperative Anesthesia Critical Care Medicine and Pain Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Thomas J. Mancuso

  3. Senior Associate in Perioperative Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Joseph P. Cravero

  4. Senior Associate in Cardiac Anesthesia, Chief Division of Cardiac Anesthesia, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    James A. DiNardo

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Cravero, J.P. (2017). Postanesthesia Care Unit (PACU). In: Holzman, R., Mancuso, T., Cravero, J., DiNardo, J. (eds) Pediatric Anesthesiology Review. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48448-8_49

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