After surgery - Singapore General Hospital | Singapore General Hospital

After your surgery, you will be monitored by our healthcare team.

Hemodynamic Monitoring

Your blood pressure, oxygen level, respiration rate, pulse and pain level will be assessed frequently.
Your arms and legs will be checked for movement, feeling, circulation and pulse.
You will be transferred back to the ward or high dependency rooms or Intensive care unit or intensive care area once review by anesthetist
The nurse will bring you back to ward via trolley.

Airway Management

Oxygen Therapy

You will be given oxygen therapy, the nurse will remove the tube later that day or next day

Deep Breathing Exercise

You will need to take deep, slow breaths and exhale slowly to expand your lungs. This deep-breathing exercise also stimulates the cough reflex to help you cough up secretions. You may be given a breathing aid that helps to keep your lungs healthy. (10 times per hour while awake)

Circulation-Clot Prevention

Anti embolism stockings

These are stockings worn on your legs to prevent clots in the lower limbs and improve circulation.

Pneumatic Pumps

A mechanical device known as a calf pump may be used to squeeze the leg muscles and improve circulation while you are in the hospital.

Ankle pumps Exercises

Ankle pump exercises are to assist circulation. Lie on your back with straight legs. Keeping your heels flat, pull your toes toward your head, flexing your feet, then point your toes away from you. Move your feet and ankles back and forth, completing a full range of motion.

Pain Control Following Surgery

Establishing progressive pain management strategies that speed recovery and minimize postoperative pain is a critical part of your recovery.
Using pain medication enables you to perform the necessary activities to expedite your recovery and begin your exercise program.
Pain will be assessed using a number (0-10)/ scale to gauge your pain; 0 being no pain and 10 being unbearable.
You should tell your nurse as soon as the pain begins, as it is easier to control before it becomes severe.
Pain medication will be served if you are in pain.
Inform the doctor/ nurse if experience side effects of pain medications.

Pain Relief Devices

You may be given pain medications, pain injection, patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) or continuous infusion of pain medication.

PCA involves a computerized pump that either delivers a prescribed amount of medication on demand when the patient pushes a button.
PCA will deliver only safe doses of pain medication.

Our pain management specialists will work to transition you to oral pain medications as smoothly as possible.