Pain Control and Positioning in Children Following Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy Surgery

DISCUSSION Results support return to practice of 1 day of flat time. Nurses perceive that lying flat contributes to child and parent anxiety and limits options for distraction; therefore, decreasing flat time may lower anxiety without affecting pain control. These results are limited to postsurgical SDR patients but have implications for postoperative positioning and pain management. On the basis of these results, the neurosurgeon changed practice to zero days of flat time.
Source: Journal of Neuroscience Nursing - Category: Neuroscience Tags: Article Source Type: research