Postoperative Mobilization: Evidence-Based Practices

Year 2025, Volume: 4 Issue: 1, 50 - 62, 28.03.2025

Nebihat Tekin , Meryem Yavuz Van Giersbergen

https://doi.org/10.59312/ebshealth.1566408

Abstract

Postoperative mobilization is an important component of the surgical process. By ensuring early mobilization, many complications after surgery are prevented and recovery and hospital stay are shortened. Enhanced Recovery of After Surgery (ERAS) protocols, which consist of evidence-based practices, recommend that mobilization be done early and in a planned manner by a multidisciplinary team. However, postoperative mobilization rates are not at the desired level due to various obstacles. Identifying the obstacles to early postoperative mobilization and creating strategies for changeable elements and ensuring mobilization within the framework of protocols are the important keys to achieving the postoperative mobilization goal. This review was written to emphasize the importance of postoperative mobilization, the roles and responsibilities of surgical nurses in postoperative mobilization practices, the obstacles encountered in providing early and targeted mobilization, and the recommendations of current guidelines on this subject.

Keywords

Postoperative mobilization, ERAS, Evidence-Based Practice

Ameliyat Sonrası Mobilizasyon: Kanıta Dayalı Uygulamalar

Abstract

Ameliyat sonrası mobilizasyon, cerrahi sürecin önemli bir bileşenidir. Erken mobilizasyonun sağlanmasıyla, cerrahi girişim sonrası birçok komplikasyon önlenmekte, iyileşme hızlanmakta ve hastanede kalış süresi kısalmaktadır. Kanıta dayalı uygulamalardan oluşan Enhanced Recovery of After Surgery (ERAS) Ameliyat sonrası hızlandırılmış iyileşme protokolleri, mobilizasyonun multidisipliner ekip tarafından, erken ve planlı olarak yapılmasını önermektedir. Ancak ameliyat sonrası mobilizasyon oranları, çeşitli birçok engelden dolayı istenilen düzeyde değildir. Ameliyat sonrası erken mobilizasyonun önündeki engellerin belirlenmesi ve değiştirilebilir unsurlar için stratejiler oluşturulması, protokoller çerçevesinde mobilizasyonun sağlanması ameliyat sonrası mobilizasyon hedefine ulaşmanın önemli anahtarıdır. Bu derleme, ameliyat sonrası mobilizasyonun önemini, cerrahi hemşirelerinin ameliyat sonrası mobilizasyon uygulamalarındaki rol ve sorumluluklarını, erken ve hedefli mobilizasyonun sağlanmasında karşılaşılan engelleri ve güncel rehberlerin bu konudaki önerilerini vurgulamak amacıyla yazılmıştır.

Keywords

Ameliyat sonrası mobilizasyon, ERAS, Kanıta dayalı uygulamalar

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