scholarly journals Resource Utilisation And Costs Associated With Intravenous Patient-Controlled Analgesia Morphine For Post-Operative Pain Management In A Teaching Hospital Setting In Ireland

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (9) ◽  
pp. A558 ◽  
Author(s):  
B Dooley
Author(s):  
Rabiu Musa ◽  
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Halima Muhammad ◽  

Knowledge and attitude of Nurses towards post-operative pain management in Muhammadu Abdullahi Wase Teaching hospital Kano. Knowledge and skills of Nurses towards post-operative pain managements haven being an issue in Muhammad Abdullahi Wase Teaching hospital due to workload, inadequate staffs, lack of adequate equipment’s to access patient level of pain .Aim to assessed the knowledge level of Nurses towards post-operative pain management, to determine the level of Nurses attitude towards post-operative pain management and identified the complication of inadequate post-operative pain management in Muhammad Abdullahi Wase Teaching Hospital Kano. Post-operative pain management has being an integral issue in patient who has undergone surgery leading to poor wound healing and prolong hospital stay. The descriptive research design was used to uncover knowledge and attitude of nurses towards postoperative pain management , a self-structured questionnaire was administered to population of fifty eight (58) respondents and sample size of fifty(50) was determined using Taro Yamane formula for determining sample size n= N/ (1+N(e)2). Method of data analysis was done using SPSS version 22. The result of the study shows that Nurses have a good knowledge and attitude towards post-operative pain managements. It was concluded that Nurses in surgical wards should indulge into continuing education programmed, in-house training and seminars in pain managements to boost their knowledge and skills.


Author(s):  
O.O. Pochynok ◽  
I.A. Kuchynska ◽  
D.O. Dziuba

Background. Unsatisfactory cases of pain management resulted in poor treatment outcomes have been reported in the last quarter of XX century and unfortunately the number of the cases is not decreasing nowadays. Moderate or severe pain are critical causes of complications, increase in morbidity and mortality in the postoperative period after surgical procedures. Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) is an effective strategy for postoperative pain management as it may provide suitable analgesic dose just after system activation thus reducing periods of pain and an increasing patients’ satisfaction. The purpose of this study is to elucidate the optimal and modern method of postoperative pain-controlled pain managements. Materials and methods. The study material was selected by keyword searching throughout databases Google, PubMed, journal "Anaestesia and Analgesia". Keywords entered into the database search boxes were as following: "patient- controlled analgesia", "postoperative anesthesia", "postoperative anesthesia". The study provides the lattest approaches, benefits and shortcomings in post-operative pain management. Conclusions. Ptient-controlled analgesia is a promisitng mode to control acute pain. A few advantages of this technique can be distinguished, for example, a higher analgesic level with a patient's satisfactions. Today, there is still no single opinion on which way or medicine is the best to be used in clinical practice because clinical efficiency / safety depends on a complex understanding of the pharmacokinetic profile of medicines for various routes of administration. In addition, pharmacoeconomic research is needed to assess the economic efficiency of these approaches.


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