Which action will the perioperative nurse take after surgery is completed for a patient who received ketamine as an anesthetic agent?

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Hallucinations are an adverse effect associated with the dissociative anesthetics such as ketamine. Therefore the postoperative environment should be kept quiet to decrease the risk of hallucinations. Because ketamine causes profound analgesia lasting into the postoperative period,higher doses of analgesics are not needed. Ketamine causes an increase in heart rate. Benzodiazepine may be used with ketamine to decrease the incidence of hallucinations and nightmares.

Which Action Will the Perioperative Nurse Take After Surgery Is