[Immediate post-operative period in patients undergoing total thyroidectomy in the ICU]

Patients subject to total thyrodectomy are not usually treated after surgery in the ICU. After analyzing a series of 45 patients which were admitted in our unit and evaluating the possible complications that could arise in the postoperative of thyroid surgery, we justified their admission at least during the first few hours after immediate surgery. The patients admitted benefit from continuous haemodynamic surveillance, monitorization of calcemia, evaluation of surgical wound and bleeding, supplied by nursing staff to enable the early detection of the possible complications of this type of surgery.