Association Between Acute Pain and Hemodynamic Parameters in a Postoperative Surgical Intensive Care Unit

I conducted a prospective repeated-measure study in the general surgery intensive care unit to investigate the associations among acute postoperative pain, analgesic therapy, and hemodynamic parameters. I selected 33 patients and recorded 84 episodes of pain. I measured intensity of pain and hemodynamic parameters after patients were transferred from the postanesthesia care unit to the general surgery intensive care unit, immediately before analgesic therapy and at 15, 30, and 45  minutes after analgesic therapy.

Source: AORN Journal - May 27, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Hossein Asgar Pour Tags: Featured article Source Type: research