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KMID : 1004620060120020133
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Clinical Nursing Research
2006 Volume.12 No. 2 p.133 ~ p.143
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Factors Influencing Length of Stay among Patients with General Anesthesia at the Recovery Room
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Lee Kyu-Ok
Son Youn-Jung
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Abstract
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Purpose: This descriptive correlation study was to identify the factors that influence the length of stay at recovery room.
Method: Subjects for this research were 156 general anesthesia patients. The data were analyzed by SPSS WIN 12.0 program.
Result: The average length of stay in recovery room was 51.06±18.78 minutes. Length of stay was not significantly different according to the preoperative factors. But length of stay was significantly different according to the intraoperative factors(anesthetic time & the amount of intraoperative fluid) and the postoperative factors(PAR score,
consciousness and complication). The length of stay was significantly correlated with anesthetic time(r=.26, p=.003),
intraoperative fluid(r=.24, p=.006), PAR score(r=-.23, p=.037) and complication(r=.49, p=.000). The multiple linear regression analyses showed that complication, PAR score and anesthetic time significantly predicted length of stay in recovery room. These factors explained 29% out of total variance of the length of stay.
Conclusion: Therefore these variables should be considered in nursing intervention development and education. Furthermore further research is needed to find the other psychological and environmental variables in the context of operative period.
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KEYWORD
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General anesthesia, Recovery room, Length of stay, Operative
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