HEALTH EDUCATION ON POST OPERATIVE EXERCISES AFTER ABDOMINAL

HEALTH EDUCATION ON POST OPERATIVE EXERCISES AFTER ABDOMINAL SURGERIES

Post Operative Period • Post operative period is the period after the surgery is completed.

Post Operative Complications q. Post operative complications are conditions that occur in clients who had undergone any kind of surgeries that are risk inherent in surgical procedures.

Post Operative Complications

Post Operative Exercises • Post operative excises are the exercises that has to be performed after the surgery for early recovery, prevention of complications and returning the client to the optimum level of functioning.

PURPOSES

Turning Exercise

Duration • Turning and reposition should be done every 1 -2 hours during post operative period. Benefits • Turning helps thrombophelbitis, complications. to prevent pressure venous stasis, ulcers and respiratory

Respiratory Exercises Deep Breathing

Duration • Deep breathing should be done 5 -10 times every hour during post operative period of immobilization. Benefits • Deep breathing helps to expand collapsed alveoli in lungs and prevents post operative pneumonia and atelectasis.

Coughing Exercise

Duration • Cough 2 -3 times every two hourly while awake in the post operative period. Benefits • Coughing helps to remove retained chest secretions from bronchi and large airways.

Leg Exercises

Benefits • Leg exercises helps to improve circulation, muscle strength and muscle tone

Early Ambulation