El Hospital San Juan de Dios of Sevilla prepares a child guide for the patient surgical
is illustrated with children’s images and a very basic language so that the child can assimilate better the process an operation.
Seville, November of 2011- the mere fact of having to go to the doctor for a routine control, can create a State of nervousness in a minor. This situation can be increased if the paediatric patient should be hospitalized and undergo a surgery, to his parents, who may not know how to act and require are no strangers helps professional in this trance.
Faced with this situation, the Hospital San Juan de Dios de Sevilla, belonging to the Hospitaller order of St. John of God , has made a guide addressed to children surgical patients and their parents, where in a pleasant way with children’s illustrations and a simple argument tell the steps before and after an intervention surgical.
The document. in triptych format, is very useful, especially for parents, who can move their children all stages, as they go to the doctor, what will be the day of the operation, what happens after the intervention and the time to go to their homes.
The objective of this training program to help children and their parents deal with experience surgical as well as possible is to provide them a material to explain easily throughout the process, and prepare them to minimise a possible state of anxiety and hypothetical changes in behavior after intervention
in some cases will be parents themselves, depending on the age of the minor, who shall transmit the information; and in others, the children it can be read directly.
Most interventions to pediatric patients in the Hospital San Juan de Dios de Sevilla is performed in the specialty of Otolaryngology where carry out interventions of tonsils and adenoids, mainly, and the experience after the implementation of the specific preparation for this type of patients, it has been quite successful, achieving reduce stress which of itself generates the ignorance of the surgical experiences.
After the surgery of the child also takes active a follow-up protocol for the next 24 hours after giving high, where they called on the home of the involved patient and you wonder aspects as if you had pain, if you are managing prescribed painkillers, if he relents or not pain with medicationsIf it has bled from mouth or nose, if you’ve had nausea or vomiting, if it tolerates liquids. Also makes a weekly review and the possibility to contact the specialists any inconvenience that note.
