How To Care Post Operative Patient

How To Care Post Operative Patient. 822018 Open the patients airway using a head-tilt chin-lift manoeuvre. Feeling listening for abnormal sounds and closely observing their patients.

Give your patient the nurse call and advise him to call before getting out of bed. Surgical dressings that cover the incision may be removed prior to discharge from the hospital. Place one hand on the patients forehead and the other under the chin.

Apply concepts of sterile technique asepsis and Standard Precautions during wound assessment and dressing changes.

The Recovery Room 1. Surgical dressings that cover the incision may be removed prior to discharge from the hospital. In routine uncomplicated procedures a follow-up visit at 1 week is usually adequate. If sutures are to be removed that can be done at the 1-week postoperative appointment.