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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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A systematic review of pain assessment tools
Kroiherová, Tereza ; Vomáčková, Helena (advisor) ; Pánek, David (referee)
Title: A systematic review of pain assessment tools Objectives: The aim of this thesis is to create a systematic review of the most widely used multidimensional tools (questionnaires) for assessing pain in patients with nonspecific pain of the cervical and lumbar spine. From the available sources, describe their use, the purpose it was generated for, their reliability, validity, and finally arrange the questionnaires from the most used and assess their advantages and disadvantages for use in clinical practice of physiotherapist. Method: The thesis is processed through a systematic review. The subject of the thesis are pain evaluating tools, especially in the cervical and lumbar spine. The studies containing questionnaires used to assess pain in the cervical and lumbar spine were searched out. Data extraction was carried out according to pre-specified criteria. Unsatisfactory studies were excluded. After the relevant questionnaires selection a content analysis of each tool was conducted, built a systematic review of the most commonly used questionnaires and their critical evaluation. Results: On the basis of the entire set of relevant studies I described and evaluated 14 questionnaires. Five of them are designed specifically for low back pain. They are the Roland Morris Disability Questionnaire,...
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The experience of children with diagnosis and control of pain during hospitalization on children's wards
ZELLEROVÁ, Kateřina
The diploma thesis entitled "Experience of children in assessment and treatment of pain in hospitalization at children's departments" deals with the topic of children's pain and its treatment. The issue is the main topic of the theoretical and practical part of the thesis and both of them focus on children at their pre-school and school age. The theoretical part of the thesis describes the current state of the issue, the psychology of a child at the pre-school and school age and also pain as such and its specifics in children. It is obvious that pain of a child is different not only in diagnostics and treatment. A child reacts differently also in experiencing pain, and also fables are often among people regarding pain that persist even these days. It is important to realize that a child is not a smaller adult, and that is why care for a child must be different. At the same time a child has to be taken as an integral human being who experiences pain and it always has to be assessed objectively according to scales and other objective methods selected according to the child's age. In this area, a big problem can be fables about children's pain that persist even in the current population. The research part of the thesis is aimed at interviews with children hospitalized at children's departments regarding their pain and also interviews with nurses. It compares information obtained from both groups of respondents and it looks for answers to questions of experiencing pain by a child, assessment by a nurse and treatment. It is apparent from the results of the research that children perceived differences in assessment and treatment of pain at home and in hospital, particularly in the change of the person that have to approach, and also in using non-pharmacological methods that are used more by mothers at home. This regards frequency and the way of pain assessment; children are not aware of regularity of assessment, they do not know the scales that the nurses mentioned as those that are used most often. Treatment of pain in hospitals is mostly pharmacological. But children do not always get the information about effect of a drug when it is administered to them. At the same time this part of the thesis looks for the possibilities and the need to create a standard for assessment and treatment of pain in children as well as the most important parts that the standards should contain. In this connection, a draft of the standard for nursing care of a child in pain was created within the thesis which makes up an appendix hereof.
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