Surgery
Abdominoplasty
Recovery with a drain, a compression binder and a flexed position in the first days.
The daily routine
8 routine items- 08:00Morning pain medicine
- 09:00Change the dressing
- 11:00Short walk around the house
- 12:00Record the drain output
- 16:00Afternoon pain medicine
- 18:00Short walk around the house
- 20:00Photo of the scar
It starts as a draft
No patient sees this template until a clinician checks the values and approves it. The database refuses to activate a protocol without who approved it and when.
What the template brings
What the clinician confirms before activating
The numbers that vary by technique and by clinician stay out of the text until they are confirmed.
- How many hours a day to wear the binder
- For how many weeks to wear the binder
- When the drain is usually removed
- For how many days to keep the flexed position (semi-reclined, knees bent)
- When lymphatic drainage massage can start
2 guidance items by phase
Guidance by phase
First hours
- How to lie down and how to get out of beddays 0 to 12
- Living with the draindays 0 to 8
2 answered questions
Questions the knowledge base answers
- Do I have to wear the binder all the time?
- My lower belly is numb and hard.
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