Aldrete's scoring system

Aldrete's scoring system
PurposeDetermining when patients can be safely discharged from the post-anesthesia care unit.

Aldrete's scoring system is a commonly used scale for determining when postsurgical patients can be safely discharged from the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU), generally to a second stage (phase II) recovery area, hospital ward, or home. It was devised in 1970[1] by Jorge Antonio Aldrete [de], a Mexican anesthesiologist, while working at the Denver Veterans Affairs Hospital.

  1. ^ Aldrete, J. Antonio; Kroulik, Diane (November 1970). "A Postanesthetic Recovery Score". Anesthesia & Analgesia. 49 (6): 924–934. doi:10.1213/00000539-197011000-00020. ISSN 0003-2999. PMID 5534693. S2CID 1141517.