Routine care after general anesthesia

Patients may need surgical treatment to treat their diseases, and for more serious surgeries, general anesthesia may be required. Good care during general anesthesia surgery is very important. After the operation, the patient's vital signs should be closely observed to prevent aspiration. Before the patient wakes up, the airway must be kept open and the patient must keep warm. Let’s take a look at this aspect.

General anesthesia postoperative care routine

1. Concept:

In medicine, general anesthesia is the abbreviation of general anesthesia. Anesthetics are introduced into the body through respiratory inhalation, intravenous injection, intramuscular injection or rectal perfusion, causing them to have an inhibitory effect on the central nervous system, thereby reversibly changing certain functions of the central nervous system and achieving the purpose of loss of consciousness and painlessness (during surgery). This is called general anesthesia, or GA for short.

2. Nursing:

1. Refer to general nursing routine of ICU.

2. No eating or drinking.

3. Patients who have not yet awakened from anesthesia should be placed in the lateral position or supine position without a pillow with the head tilted to one side to prevent aspiration.

4. Strictly perform bedside handover. ICU nursing staff should ask the operating room nurses and anesthesiologists for detailed information about the intraoperative situation, monitor vital signs in a timely manner, observe the respiratory rate and depth, check the infusion, wounds, and various pipelines, carefully perform bedside handover, and keep detailed records.

5. Observe vital signs closely.

6. Patients with postoperative pain can be given analgesics as prescribed by the doctor, and a pain pump can be placed after the operation.

7. Patients after surgery should keep warm.

8. Keep the airway open. If necessary, leave a pharyngeal ventilation tube or connect a ventilator.

9. Ensure that all drainage channels are unobstructed and closely observe the color, quality and quantity of the drainage fluid. If there is any abnormality, contact the doctor in time.

10. For patients without indwelling catheterization, if they are still unable to urinate on their own 4-6 hours after waking up from anesthesia, percussion should be performed first. If urine is present, active induction should be given and indwelling catheterization should be placed if necessary.