Investigating the orientations offered to the patient in postoperative of myocardial revascularization

Abstract

Considering the feeling of fear an anxiety that the patient and its family have related to the insecurity of not knowing how to deal with pots operative care, this study had the aim of investigating the orientations offered to the patients submitted to a myocardial revascularization surgery when they leave the hospital. It is a study of the quantitative, descriptive and transversal type, accomplished at a hospital located in a municipal district in the west of Paraná State, in the 2005. Twenty-three patients, who had a myocardial revascularization surgery, were interviewed when they returned for their first follow-up consultation. The results evidenced that 17 (74%) of them would like to receive explanatory information on how to take care of themselves at home, however, only 13 (57%) of them received some orientation when they left hospital. Among the research participants, 12 (52,2%)  received the doctor's orientations, 10 (43,5%)  said  that  they didn't remember the received orientations and 17  (74%) said  that  written  orientations  would facilitate  to remember them at home. The results emphasize the importance of the communication in all of the operative periods as well as the need of the nurse’s action in the care processes and in the orientations to the patient.

Key words: Myocardial revascularization; Follow-up plan for the patient; Nursing; Postoperative cares.