Identifying conditioning factors of the surgical process and their implications on the perioperative assistance / Problemas de usuários cirúrgicos após a alta hospitalar: identificando fatores condicionantes do processo cirúrgico e suas implicações para a assistência perioperatória

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2004

RESUMO

This study, carried through in a general and private hospital, aimed at identifying problems presented by the surgical patients after being released from the hospital, connecting them with the perioperative assistance and discuss possible nursing actions for the improvement of the patients´ evolution after hospital release. The population was composed of 112 patients submitted to elective surgeries in the period from March to May, 2004. The data had been obtained from the patients´ records and from interviews with the patients, searching information on the problems presented and aspects of the assistance given referring to: surgery, anesthesia, preoperative preparation, pre and after operative periods of hospital staying, pre and after daily visits from the professionals related to the surgical process, time of the visits, guidances received for hospital release, among others. The results had shown that 69.6% of the patients presented problems, related to the emotional and physiological alterations and doubts. The most frequent referred to the surgical wound, which corresponded to most of the related complaints. Amongst the problems, 5.3% demanded re-hospitalization. The results concerning the perioperative assistance indicate a relation of some factors with the stated problems. The releasing guidances had revealed incomplete. In most of the cases it was considered that the pre and after operative periods of hospital staying are short and do not support formal moments and places for the preparation, evaluation and guidances to the patient. The after surgical period is still shorter, due to the time demanded for the anesthetical recovery which, in this study, the most complex ones had predominated. There was a significant association between the after operative period and type of anesthesia. In those phases, not all the patients had received visits from the professionals directly involved with surgical process and, amongst those who received, most of them were carried through only in the operating room, mainly amongst the anesthesiologists. The problems presented after the release that demanded hospitalization had occurred in patients who had not received preoperative and the anesthesiologist´s daily visit. The patient only come back to the hospital when complications had already occurred. Therefore, the surgical process release occurs in the surgeons office, and the hospital has no conditions to take part into preventing the problems after the release. With the advance of the technology, the operative process has been altered. Surgical interventions have been faster over and over, allowing the recovery in lesser time. On the other hand, the surgical process has been carried through in some places, besides the hospital, being able to determine the "chasms" in the perioperative assistance stages, and fomenting problems, not only during the transoperative period, as well as during the after surgical one. The need for new assistencial strategies was noticed, which would guarantee the completeness of this process. And nursing can be one of those strategies, as a link of integration between patient/family/hospital/surgeon. The determination of the patient´s formal moments for evaluation and guidances, not only during the pre and after surgical phases, must be considered, aiming at answering the patients´ expectations and needs as shown in this study

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surgical assistance surgical process perioperative nursing assistance processo cirúrgico assistência cirúrgica assistência de enfermagem perioperatória

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