NCLEX-RN Complete Prep Course — Lesson 86: Postoperative Care and Complications: Airway, Hemorrhage, Atelectasis, DVT, Wound Dehiscence, Ileus, and Urinary Retention

Sarah Mitchell walks the postoperative timeline, airway and positioning in the PACU, the Aldrete score, and discharge criteria, then the complications by the clock, hemorrhage in the first 24 hours with tachycardia before hypotension, atelectasis at 48 hours, DVT and pulmonary embolism, wound infection and dehiscence with evisceration, paralytic ileus, and urinary retention with a bladder scan at 6 to 8 hours. She closes with layered pain management, ambulation, and discharge teaching, plus an early hemorrhage scenario and an evisceration scenario.

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