Liver transplantation: nursing problems in patients during the postoperative phase

Abstract

The aim of this study is to raise the nursing problems in the surgical clinic, providing elements for the Systematization of the Nursing Assistance. Purposes: to identify the epidemiological profile and nursing problems in the immediate postoperative phase of patients submitted to liver transplantation. Methods: a retrospective analysis was used by assessing the medical records of patients submitted to liver transplantation along an one-year period, in which 35 patients were submitted to the procedure. Results: a total of 312 nursing problems were identified. Conclusion: those systems with the higher amount of associated problems were: gastrointestinal, respiratory, cutaneous- mucous, and neurological. The nursing problems that presented higher frequency were: soft and swollen abdomen on palpation, oliguria, serosanguinous surgical incision, jaundice and itching, periods of confusion, reduced vesicular murmurs and edema.