Pain Management Strategies For Post Operative Patients Within First 24 Hours At Kakamega County Teaching &Refferal Hospital In Kenya
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Nursing and health Science - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 6
Abstract
Managing acute postoperative pain is a major challenge for practitioners, given that more than 80% of patients report pain after surgery, and 75% report the pain as moderate, severe, or even extreme .The American pain Society states that ‘In more than half of cases, patients report not receiving adequate pain management following their procedure’, which has raised concerns over the development of chronic pain.The objective of the study was to determine the pain management strategies at KCTRH, Kenya. The study adopted a descriptive cross-sectional study which was carried out KCTRH, Kakamega. The participants in the study included all adult male and female patients who had undergone major surgical procedure within 24 hours postoperative.at KCTRH. The target population, (N) is 250.Purposive sampling method was used, meaning that only patients available during the data collection period and meets the inclusion criteria were included in the sample.Majority of the patients interviewed were aged between 31-40 years and most of the respondents were females accounting to 67(61%) of the respondents.All the respondents interviewed were Christians and worked in the informal sector. Most of the respondents 80(73%) reported thatpainkillers were given through intravenous. 64(59%) of the respondents were given general anaesthesia whereas 45(41%) were given regional block type of anaesthesia.The findings of this study have showed that post-operative pain management in the first 24 hours is not effective. It is imperative that post-operative pain is adequately managed to alleviate the patients suffering. In order to achieve this, the study recommends development of pain assessment tool, Sensitizing the nurses on the need of pain assessment, The hospital should make analgesic available for use by the patients, A similar study to be conducted using a larger sample size to improve generalizability
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Consolata Lusweti, Anne Asiko
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Managing acute postoperative pain is a major challenge for practitioners, given that more than 80% of patients report pain after surgery, and 75% report the pain as moderate, severe, or even extreme .The American pain So...