AN OBSERVATIONAL STUDY ON THE INCIDENCE OF GENERAL ANESTHESIA RELATED POST OPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS IN POST ANESTHESIA CARE UNIT (PACU)

Abstract

Background: Post-operative care is the management of a patient after surgery. This includes care given in the surgical suite room and in the post Anaesthesia care unit (PACU) during the immediate post-operative period .Postoperative complications can also occur due to the anaesthetic technique and medications. The main problems with general anaesthesia are postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV), Surgical site pain, Sore throat, hypoxia, hypotension, dental injury, fatigue and unsteadiness, damage to peripheral nerves due to positioning and subacute thrombosis. This observational study was performe Methods: d in 156 patients who underwent treatments under general anaesthesia. Patients were observed for 6 hours in PACU after general anaesthesia and vitals and the complications were monitored. In this study mild to moderate complications were reported. The result Results: s showed that for laparoscopic and non laparoscopic surgeries, the factors pain (p=0.001) and sore throat(p=0.016) are signicant. PONV also showed a mild signicance in both laparoscopic and non laparoscopic surgeries (p=0.052). From this study on 156 patients who underwent for general a Conclusions: naesthesia, based on the results from this study we concluded that minor complications like pain, sore throat, PONV are most commonly occurring in patients. There is a relation between sore throat and pain in both laparoscopic and non laparoscopic surgeries. PONV also shows signicance in both laparoscopic and non laparoscopic surgeries .