Influence of socio-demographic, clinical and surgical variables on the Aldrete-Kroulik Scoring System

• Published in: Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem Vol. 71; no. 6; pp. 3013 - 3019
• Main Authors: Cruz, Luciana Falcão da, Felix, Márcia Marques Dos Santos, Ferreira, Maria Beatriz Guimarães, Pires, Patrícia da Silva, Barichello, Elizabeth, Barbosa, Maria Helena
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; Portuguese
• Published: Brazil Associação Brasileira de Enfermagem 01.11.2018
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Anesthesia; Brazil; Care Unit; Elective Surgical Procedures; Female; Health Services Accessibility - standards; Hospitalization - statistics & numerical data; Humans; Hypertension - drug therapy; Hypertension - psychology; Internet; Joint surgery; Longitudinal studies; Male; Medication Adherence - psychology; Middle Aged; Nursing; Pain; Patients; Perioperative Nursing; Physiology; Postoperative Complications; Postoperative Pain; Postoperative period; Research Design - standards; Socioeconomic Factors; Surveys and Questionnaires; Vital signs; Brazil
• ISSN: 0034-7167; 1984-0446; 1984-0446
• DOI: 10.1590/0034-7167-2017-0813

To identify the influence of the variables sex, age, type of anesthesia, occurrence of intraoperative complications, pain and surgical complexity on the Aldrete-Kroulik Scoring System in patients in the immediate postoperative period, in the post-anesthesia care unit. Non-experimental, longitudinal study, with a quantitative approach, conducted with 241 surgical patients. Descriptive analysis, Student's t-test, Pearson and Spearman Correlation Indexes and multiple linear regression were used to analyze the data. Correlations between the Aldrete-Kroulik Scoring System and pain (r=-0.13; p=0.05) and surgical complexity (r=-0.12; p=0.05) were statistically significant. The type of anesthesia and pain (p<0.01) influenced the decrease of the Aldrete-Kroulik System's scores. Considering the vulnerability of patients in the immediate postoperative period, it is essential for the nurse to know the factors that can influence the Aldrete-Kroulik Scoring System to provide a safe and optimal post-anesthesia recovery.