When caring for a client who is post-intracranial surgery, the most important parameter to monitor is body temperature.
What is the link between intracranial surgery and body temperature?
Intracranial surgery involves surgery of the brain or spine present within the skull.
During the first week after intracranial surgery, patients tend to develop fever therefore, it is necessary to monitor body temperature regularly.
An injury in the brain can affect a person’s ability to regulate temperature leading to uncontrolled fluctuations between hot and cold temperature which has a bad effect on the health.
Post cranial surgery can also lead to fatigue, swelling in brain, pain, swollen lymph nodes in armpits, neck.
Intracranial surgery can cause bleeding, blood clots, uneven blood pressure.
