General anesthesia surgery can not sleep within 2 hours after surgery, mainly to prevent the patient’s apnea life-threatening, so the family should be more communication with the postoperative patient within 2 hours after surgery.
After surgery under general anesthesia, because the residual anesthetic drugs in the body need some time to be metabolized, and the effect of the anesthetic drugs in the body that have not been fully metabolized may inhibit the patient’s respiration, so in order to avoid the occurrence of accidents, try not to sleep within 2 hours after the operation. If the patient sleeps within 2 hours after surgery, the respiratory inhibitory effect of anesthesia drugs may be ignored, thus causing adverse consequences.
In addition to this, some people who sleep within 2 hours after general anesthesia surgery may experience choking and coughing, increasing the risk of pneumonia and asphyxiation. In the 2 hours after general anesthesia surgery, family members should communicate with the patient more often, so as to divert attention and improve the phenomenon of wanting to sleep.
It is recommended that family members closely monitor the patient’s vital signs after surgery, so as to detect abnormalities in time and inform the doctor to deal with them.