Aproximación a la experiencia del paciente en el proceso quirúrgicoAnálisis de las relaciones entre ansiedad, dolor y satisfacción

Abstract

It is considered that patient experience during preoperative surgery is a driver for stress, leading to physiological and psychological reactions. These can foster a patient’s proactive reply to a future threat, commonly known as anxiety. Evidence shows that surgical education during preoperative phase helps the patient to handle surgery and to understand the outcomes of it. Nurses play a keyrole on coordinating patient care and providing specialized information about the potential stressful consequences derived from clinical procedure. Depending on how individuals accept information about surgical treatment, two different patient profiles can be described: “monitors” or “blunters”. It must be noted that pre- or postoperative anxiety is tightly linked to the way patients accept surgical information...