Nursing interventions to prevent neuropsychologic complications
- Nursing interventions to prevent neuropsychologic complications
- Monitor oxygen levels with pulse oximetry
- Oxygen therapy
- Pain management
- Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA)
- Reversal agents (Phase I)
- Assess for anxiety and depression
- Alcohol protocols
- Neuropsychologic nursing diagnosis
- Acute confusion related to hypoxia, postoperative cognitive dysfunction, delirium
- Anxiety related to change in health status, hospital environment
- Disturbed body image related to loss of body part(s), function
- Disturbed sleep pattern related to pain, hospital environment
- Alterations in temperature postoperative complications
- Hypothermia/ shivering
- Fever
- Malignant hyperthermia
- Passive warming
- Active warming
- Oxygen therapy
- Altered temperature nursing diagnosis
- Hypothermia related to long surgical procedures, prolonged use of anesthetics
- Hyperthermia related to hypermetabolic state, infection
- Risk for imbalanced body temperature
- Risk for perioperative hypothermia