Frequency of complications after surgery in the recovery ward of Imam Khomeini Hospital in Ahvaz in 1399

Surgery and anesthesia cause a number of physiological disorders that affect the organs of the body and may appear as complications during recovery after anesthesia. Therefore, these cases must be evaluated and identified.

This is a descriptive-analytical epidemiological study designed on 385 patients transferred to the recovery ward of Imam Khomeini Hospital in Ahvaz who underwent general surgery during a 4-month study in 1399. Done. Patients from different age groups and genders were included in the study considering the inclusion and exclusion criteria. After attaching the monitors to the patients, first the basic vital signs including systolic and diastolic blood pressure, heart rate and blood oxygen saturation were measured and recorded in the information form.

In this study, the sex distribution of patients undergoing surgery in 57.66% were male and 42.34% were female. According to the results, 53.2% of patients underwent epidural anesthesia, 43.1% under general anesthesia, 1.6% under local anesthesia, 1.3% under block sedation and 0.8% under anesthesia bed. The most common complications observed in the operating room were pain, chills, and nausea, so that 40.52% of patients in the recovery room had pain, 19.5% had chills, and 16.4% had nausea. Other complications included changes in blood pressure (8.4%) and vomiting (1.6%).

The results of this study showed that the most common complications observed in the operating room were pain, chills and nausea. Also, these complications were more common in general anesthesia than epidural anesthesia, while in other anesthesia methods, no complications were observed during recovery.