BACKGROUND Pain is a common experience among mechanically ventilated patients. Pain among mechanically ventilated patients is aggravated by factors such as stage of illness, invasive procedures, and surgical interventions. The aim to this study was to investigate pain levels and predictors among mechanically ventilated patients during rest and routine nursing interventions. MATERIALS AND METH...

BACKGROUND After surgery, patient reports or health care professional evaluations of heightened acute pain intensity should lead to extra analgesia provision, which is designated by rescue analgesia (RA). Whether RA is administered or not, it is not directly dependent on the patient but rather on clinical decisions, which should be based on pain management guidelines. There is a general lack of...

780 April 2013 T benefits of optimal pain management are well recognized. Nevertheless, treatment of postoperative pain continues to be a major challenge and inadequate postoperative pain relief remains disturbingly high.1,2 This is also demonstrated in a large, comprehensive, prospective cohort study from Germany by Gerbershagen et al.3 published in this issue of ANEstHEsioloGy. one of the rea...

Abstract Background The purpose of this study was to investigate the relevant factors pain after transvaginal mesh (TVM) surgery for treatment pelvic organ prolapse and analyse management relief pain. Methods A multicentre retrospective a clinical database patients who underwent TVM conducted, related aspects were analysed. Results total 1855 included in study. We divided into two groups: pain-...

abstract   background: far lateral discal herniation is an uncommon disorder and is difficult to assess by physical examination alone. this study is designed to define clinical and epidemiological findings and to establish the indications of surgical and medical treatment for flldh.   methods: between 2000 and 2005, a total of 2035 patients with lumbar disc herniation underwent surgical discect...

DESPITE recent advances in our understanding of the physiology of acute pain, the development of new opioid and nonopioid analgesics and novel methods of drug delivery, and more widespread use of pain-reducing minimally invasive surgical techniques, pain after surgical procedures remains a challenge for many practitioners. Not surprisingly, recent surveys in the United States and Europe have em...

Chronic postsurgical pain (CPSP) is 1 important aspect of surgical recovery. To improve perioperative care and postoperative recovery knowledge on predictors of impaired recovery is essential. The aim of this study is to assess predictors and epidemiological data of CPSP, physical functioning (SF-36PF, 0-100), and global surgical recovery (global surgical recovery index, 0-100%) 3 and 12 months...

abstract background: application of a reliable and authentic behavioral tool for measuring patients’ pain, hospitalized in intensive care units who are not able to establish relationship, is needed severely. therefore, this study is conducted with the aim of validating critical care pain observation tool (cpot) in patients hospitalized in surgical wards. materials and methods: cpot was first tr...

A novel interfascial plane block, erector spinae (ESP) has been utilized for postoperative pain management in a variety of surgical procedures as well relief acute and chronic pain. As this is relatively newer technique, there paucity literature, most knowledge stems from case reports small randomized trials.

Chronic pelvic pain probably is a symptom most frequently complained of by women to a gynecologist.  Too frequently this leads to a laparatomy from whkh either no benefit is derived, or the pain is actually made worse.  The purpose of thls paper is to reevaluate the cause and etiology of chronic pelivc pain, not only to save unnecessary and expensive surgery, but most effectively to rid the p...