Investigation of Encountered Problems After Laparoscopic Surgery in Children

Abstract

Aim: This study was planned to determine the problems and affecting factors that children encounter at hospital and at home after laparoscopic surgery. Materials and Methods: This study was conducted in accordance with the descriptive cross-sectional study type in order to determine the post-operative conditions in hospital and home problems and factors affecting the operation of the study. The study was carried out on the patients of pediatric service of whom had laparoscopic surgery. Pre-operative and post-operative descriptive features form, which was developed according to literature by researchers as data collection tool, was collected by using a diagnosis form for problems occurred at home after discharge and for problems occurred in hospital after surgery. Results: It was found in the study that 54.5% of the children were male, 90.9% were gastrointestinal system surgeons and 65.4% were acute appendectomies. It was determined that most of the problems the children lived in hospital and at home was pain. Conclusion: This study will contribute to the planning of nursing interventions that will be useful for the identification, prevention and early identification of the problems that children experience both at home and in the hospital, after the surgery, and to determine the maintenance criteria.

Keywords

• child,
• laparoscopic surgery
• postoperatıve problems
• nursing

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