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Patients' Experience with Pain after Total Hip Replacement Surgery
HAVLÍN, František
Fear of postoperative pain is one of the most important concern of patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty and it is therefore important to address this issue in medical, and nursing care. In this research we focus on how patients experience pain after total hip arthroplasty. The diploma thesis is divided into two consecutive parts, namely the theoretical, and empirical part. The theoretical part describes the current state of total hip replacement, coxarthrosis, and postoperative pain management. From this part it is clear that the treatment of postoperative pain is dominated by pharmacological methods. In the empirical part, hypotheses were established which dealt with the measurement of the intensity of postoperative pain after total hip replacement surgery the use of pharmacological and non-pharmacological methods of pain treatment and the timeliness of postoperative pain relief. In the practical part of the work a quantitative survey was used. A query sheet was created which was then distributed to patients in the orthopedic patient department. The query sheets were filled out in the first, third, and fifth postoperative day and participation in it was voluntary. From a non-standardized query sheet the data were analyzed by statistics and the results are shown graphically in the thesis. The research survey shows that female and male respondents rate postoperative pain in the same way. The gradual reduction of postoperative pain is also the same for both sexes of the respondents. At the initial meeting with postoperative pain the medical staff instructed patients about the possibilities of pain treatment as the use of pharmacological and non-pharmacological pain treatment. In the query sheet the 87 (81 %) respondents choose the combination of both therapies on the first postoperative day. The 101 (94 %) respondents stated that they used 3 or more methods of non-pharmacological pain treatment on the fifth day. Research has shown that patients experienced less pain after surgery every day and the treatment of the postoperative pain was successful in terms of the rate of analgesic administration by a nurse according to the doctor's instruction. The use of non-pharmacological interventions in the treatment of pain also increased every day.
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Assesment of quality of postoperative analgesic care
Rákosová, Andrea ; Burišková, Klára (advisor) ; Hakenová, Renata (referee)
Introduction: The acute postoperative pain management is recently a concern of many expert committees and professional associations. The evidence of an increased interest in this issue is the Practice Guidelines for Acute Pain Management released by American Pain Society. According to these recommendations, the pain should be monitored as a fifth vital function. As a logical consequence of modern trends of pain management, Czech Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine issued guidelines for acute pain management in postoperative setting. This paper is an attempt to describe and evaluate the quality of postoperative analgetic care after total knee and hip replacements in a selected institution's department.………………………………..…………………………………… Methods: The aim of our empirical survey was to assess the level of quality of postoperative care and analgesia in the selected department. We focused mainly on the question of pain trivializing from the nurses side, their approach towards patients suffering from acute pain and, finally, the level of patient's awareness of pain intensity assessment systems and treatment options. Using the quantitative research methods, we evaluated the differences in perceiving of postoperative pain treatment quality from patient's and nurse's point of view. The survey...
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Assesment of quality of postoperative analgesic care
Rákosová, Andrea ; Burišková, Klára (advisor) ; Hakenová, Renata (referee)
Introduction: The acute postoperative pain management is recently a concern of many expert committees and professional associations. The evidence of an increased interest in this issue is the Practice Guidelines for Acute Pain Management released by American Pain Society. According to these recommendations, the pain should be monitored as a fifth vital function. As a logical consequence of modern trends of pain management, Czech Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine issued guidelines for acute pain management in postoperative setting. This paper is an attempt to describe and evaluate the quality of postoperative analgetic care after total knee and hip replacements in a selected institution's department.………………………………..…………………………………… Methods: The aim of our empirical survey was to assess the level of quality of postoperative care and analgesia in the selected department. We focused mainly on the question of pain trivializing from the nurses side, their approach towards patients suffering from acute pain and, finally, the level of patient's awareness of pain intensity assessment systems and treatment options. Using the quantitative research methods, we evaluated the differences in perceiving of postoperative pain treatment quality from patient's and nurse's point of view. The survey...
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