An update jie luo su min department of anesthesiology the first affiliated hospital of chongqing medical university chongqing people s republic of china abstract.
Pain management in recovery room.
Request pdf pain assessment in the recovery room the assessment and management of pain in the acute hospital setting is an important issue for practitioners layman young et al 2005.
More than one quarter of patients who responded to a national survey of nhs inpatients reported being in pain all or most of the time in hospital and delays in receiving analgesia of more than.
Medication handling in nsw public health pd2007 077.
This has led recovery room protocols to include pain as a fifth vital sign that needs to be addressed before patients are discharged to the ward 3 opioid sparing techniques are becoming more popular as they decrease the undesired side effects from narcotic analgesics especially since data now suggest.
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Concord repatriation general hospital policy and procedure manual 2006.
Recovery pain management protocol.
Ineffective team communication are barriers to effective pain management.
The complete recovery room book 4th ed new york.
Relief of postoperative pain.
An educational intervention based on the knowledge to action model was used to support the implementation of the project.
Medication handling in nsw public hospitals.
And 3 general complications nausea and vomiting hypothermia and.
Postoperative pain management in the postanesthesia care unit.
Acute postoperative pain remains a major problem resulting in multiple undesirable outcomes if inadequately controlled.
This research translation project was implemented to 22 nurses in the recovery room at an urban hospital.
Despite advances in pain management techniques and increased nursing knowledge many patients are still waking up in the recovery room in severe pain.
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This article is intended to serve as a practical synopsis emphasizing the most common and important aspects of recovery room management.
It focuses on three principle areas.
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