Jarujit Prajit
Thepparat Nakhonratchasima Hospital, Thailand
Title: Postoperative pain assessment within 24 hours at Thepparat Nakhonratchasima Hospital
Biography
Biography: Jarujit Prajit
Abstract
Pain is an emotional discomfort experience. The effective pain management leads to less complications and helps patient get quick recover. Thepparat Nakhon Ratchasima Hospital is one of the general hospitals that have many surgery cases annually. These cases include general surgical procedures, orthopedic and obstetric surgery. The accumulative surgery cases in the year of 2013, 2014, and 2015 were 2,634, 4,504 and 5,405 respectively. The patients receiving anesthesia were that of 1,409, 2,763 and 3,273 respectively. The study purposes were to survey the patient’s perception of pain within 24 hours after surgery and develop the postoperative pain management system. The cross-sectional study of 60 patients, anesthetic nurses made a visit to patients within 24 hours after anesthesia to record pain score routinely. Patients received, 63.33% of the total patients received general anesthesia and 36.67% of the total were spinal analgesia. Postoperative interview within 24 hours by anesthetists revealed that percentages of patients went through mild pain, moderate pain, and severe pain were 33.33%, 31.67%, and 35.00%. Post-operative patients faced the post-operative pain within 24 hours at the level of moderate to severe pain were 66.67 %. The interview data of post-operative pain among 60 patients receiving surgical treatment reveals informative perception of pain. There was also a high incidence of moderate to severe pain in these particular patients. These could relevant aspect for healthcare service providers to improve nursing care plan for pain management.