Postoperative pain relief, from the patients' and the nurses' point of view.

Abstract:

UNLABELLED:In this prospective, consecutive study, 191 patients were interviewed before and after surgery (orthopaedic, gynaecological, abdominal and urological operations) about their attitude to and the quality of received pain relief, respectively. In addition, nurses working in the surgical units involved in the study were asked to answer a questionnaire covering attitudes to postoperative pain and pain treatment. Of the patients, 47% were in pain at the time of the postsurgical interview, 10% had not any analgesic prescribed at all and 15% had received less than prescribed. In 36% of the cases there was a discrepancy between the amount of analgesic prescribed by the surgeon and the amount prescribed by the anaesthetist. In 80% of the patients the pain outlasted the first postoperative day, but only 64% would always tell the staff if they had pain. Seventeen per cent of the patients had never been asked about their postoperative pain status. Preoperative pain had a significant correlation to postoperative pain. Although the results are not impressive, they do constitute some improvement compared to previously published studies. Fifty-one nurses (71% of the total nursing staff) answered the questionnaire. Of these, 63% were sometimes in doubt about the physicians' prescriptions, 55% would occasionally refuse to give analgesics for various reasons, and 37% were not satisfied with the routines of pain control in their ward. CONCLUSION:Knowledge of pain treatment and communication between surgeons, anaesthesiologists, nurses and patients must be improved to make postsurgical pain relief adequate.

authors

Juhl IU,Christensen BV,Bülow HH,Wilbek H,Dreijer NC,Egelund B

doi

10.1111/j.1399-6576.1993.tb03737.x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1993-05-01 00:00:00

pages

404-9

issue

4

eissn

0001-5172

issn

1399-6576

journal_volume

37

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