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Let Peds Emerge Tranquilly
The secret for us was subbing meperidine for morphine.
Christi Rousseau, RN

When I became the clinical director of the four-OR, two-procedure-room Corinth Surgery Center, my new office was located just around the corner from the recovery room. I was struck by the crying and struggling I heard as our pediatric patients emerged from anesthesia in our PACU ' something I hadn't witnessed at my previous eight-OR, eight-room GI lab facility.

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