Help Someone After Bypass Surgery in the Hospital
Bypass surgery requires a lengthy recovery period. During that time, your loved one will need help and TLC. Providing care requires a basic understanding of what he or she needs after major surgery.
Instructions
1. Visit the patient as much as you can unless she or her doctor advise you not to.
2. Help her with meals. The nurses will set the patient's tray up and get her started. Don't hover or fuss, but give her a hand if she needs it.
3. Help her walk. It's comforting for a patient to have a loving arm to lean against when she's strolling up and down the hall, gaining strength in her legs.
4. Encourage her to walk, cough and breathe deeply, and avoid stress, but be relaxed about it.
5. Avoid having lots of people in to visit unless the patient asks for them. Remember she's still in the midst of a major recovery. Limit visitors to only the most immediate family members. Leave the children at home if possible.
6. Encourage the patient to follow the instructions of her doctors and nurses. Let the patient complain, but don't take her side and tell her it's OK to skip her post-op activities when she feels like it.
7. Ask the doctors and nurses questions when there's something you don't understand. Have faith in the medical staff.
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