Discussion on Different Postures of Post-anesthesia Nursing Care for General Surgery

Abstract

Objective To discuss and choose an reasonable posture for post-anesthesia patients suf-fered general surgical operation. Methods every 120 postoperative patients with general anesthesia(the patients were awake and get normal vital sign), epidural anesthesia or cervical anesthesia were randomly divided into control group and experiment group. Semi-reclining position were adopted after being taken horizontal position for 6 hours in the control group, and the semi-reclining position were directly taken in the experiment group after operation and the comparison was made between the two groups. Results Vital signs of all patients were smooth, and there was no statistic difference in the incidence rate of headache, dizziness and vomiting between two groups (P>0.05), but the malaise feeling was severe in control group (P<0.01). Conclusion Directly take semi-reclining position can increase comfortableness, and is helpful to the recovery of post-anesthesia patients suffered general surgical operation. Key words: Anesthesia; Posture; Semi-reclining position; Nursing care