Determination of surgery suspension factors and their constributions with nursing assistance

Abstract

Objective: determine the profile of the patients undergone surgical procedures; identify the main surgeries in a health unit; analyse the determinant factors of surgical suspensions. Methods: quantitative approach, descriptive and exploratory. The data collection happened in an archive of a hospital on the State of Rio de Janeiro. Results: from the 260 researched charts, 55 were suspensions (21,2%). There is a tendency that most of the suspensions were from patients above 40 years old. The most common procedures were herniations corrections (33,8%), prostatectomies (30%), cholelithiasis (26,8%), varices correction (26,1%) and those related to various tumorgenicity (25%). Conclusion: the most found reasons to justify the suspensions were: lack of anestesia (18,2%) and hyperthensive crisis (12,7%); were also found an high index of non declared reasons on the charts (34,5%).