Recovery and Anesthetic Satisfaction of Patients’ Postoperative General Surgery

Recovery and Anesthetic Satisfaction of Postoperative General Surgery Patients.

Abstract

In anesthesiology, several factors influence to guarantee satisfaction and adequate quality, although satisfaction is aimed at evaluating all types of anesthesia applied, this review will focus on the analysis of the satisfaction of patients undergoing general anesthesia. The satisfaction in the postoperative recovery of the patient depends on what he expects prior to his surgical procedure, the waiting time for surgery, the information provided to the patient, and the proper management of anxiety. Most of the measurements of the indicators used to assess the quality of post-anesthesia recovery involve situations from the perception of the health personnel and little about the perception of the patient, in such a way that recent investigations include variables that evaluate the state of the patient, such as pain, vomiting, chills, nausea, time to wake up among others, as parameters to know their satisfaction. In order to analyze this problem, it is necessary to identify that people hospitalized for a surgical intervention are already afraid of surgery, anesthesia, the different complications of the intervention itself and if we add the lack of empathy of the health personnel, we will increase an emotional imbalance that will affect your recovery. It must be considered that an adequate preoperative psychological adaptation is usually followed by a good postoperative adaptation; in such a way that the mental state of the patient influences his post-anesthetic recovery.