<span itemprop="author">Elizabeth Mahanna-Gabrielli, MD

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Advice for the hospitalist caring for a patient after delirium in the post-anesthesia care unit

You are called by the bedside nurse that your patient arrived on the floor from the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU). The nurse tells you that the patient was delirious and agitated after anesthesia, pulled out their IVs, and was sedated by the PACU te…