The Influence of Preoperative Anxiety, Optimism, and Pain Catastrophizing on Acute Postoperative Pain in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery: A Cross-sectional Study.

CONCLUSIONS: Pain catastrophizing should be assessed before surgery. Reducing pain catastrophizing would decrease APOP and improve the quality of pain management. PMID: 32501863 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32501863?dopt=Abstract

Source: The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing - June 1, 2020 Category: Nursing Authors: Tai AL, Hsieh HF, Chou PL, Chen HM, Liu Y Tags: J Cardiovasc Nurs Source Type: research