EXAMINATION OF THE POST-OPERATIVE HEALING PERIOD OF CHILDREN
Project no. 75 · Status: Kapanmış · 2016
Summary
This study was conducted to examine the post-operative recovery period of children. The descriptive study was conducted at the Department of Pediatric Surgery of the University Hospital between 19 September 2016 and 29 September 2017. The universe of work was the patients who had surgery. The sample consisted of 274 children aged 3-16 years who had an urgent and planned operation besides major gastrointestinal surgery and volunteered to participate in the research. Questionnaires developed by researchers in accordance with the literature were used as data collection tools. The data were collected by researchers with face-to-face interview techniques with sick children's companions. Statistical package program SPSS 21 was used in the analysis of the data. The data were evaluated in terms of number, percentage. Kruskal Wallis H test was used for the analysis of variables that did not show normal distribution. A value of p<0.05 was considered statistically significant for all results. In order to be able to work, written permission was obtained from the relevant hospital's Clinical Research Ethics Committee and the hospital administration. 36.5% of the surgeries included in the study are emergency (e), 17.2% are planned (p) and 46.4% surgeries are day surgery (ds). 70.8% of the children participating in the study are male and the average age is 9.09±3.81. It was found that 92% of the children received information about the operation. The mean duration of pre-operative hunger / thirst of the children; 20.6 / 18.2 hours for “e”, 13.9/12.6 hours for “p”, and 11.5/10.2 hours for “ds”. The mean pain immediately after surgery is 2 for "a", 3.2 for "p" and 2.3 for "gb", the days after 1 and 1 are below. After surgery, they were mobilized and walked averaged 9.3 minutes, 9.1 minutes, 10.4 minutes on the corridor, average 15.9 hours, 16.5 hours, 11 hours after gas extraction, their stool after an average 31.1 hours, 24.5 hours, 21.6 hours. It was determined that 71%, 40.4% of the children came to control, 48.8% of the children who did have day surgery did not come to control after surgery. 89%, 95.7%, 94.5% did not develop any complications, 94%, 95.7%, 94.5% was found not to have a problem after being discharged at home. %42, %31.9, %48 were able to return to their daily activities after one week. It was determined that the majority of the children did not have any problems during the recovery period and they returned to their daily life activities during the week after the surgery Key words: Pediatric surgery, Postoperative care, Recovery, Day surgery, Emergency Surgery