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Filter by:Stress and pain control are vital for newborns, especially preterm babies. While painful procedures cause physiological changes in the short term, they negatively affect brain development in the long term. Non-pharmacological interventions with proven efficacy include: fetal position, sucrose, breastfeeding, breast milk, maternal presence, non-nutritive sucking, swaddling (wrapping) and skin-to-skin contact, as well as developmentally supportive positioning. Evaluating the effectiveness of nursing practices to be performed on babies, scientifically proving the most beneficial application that will both alleviate pain and increase their comfort in painful procedures such as aspiration and being more beneficial to babies are among the most basic benefits. Thanks to these applications, it is predicted that your baby will experience less pain and provide more comfort. Therefore, this study aim to comparison the effects of facilitated tucking, swaddling and prone position applied during endotracheal aspiration on pain, comfort and physiological parameters in preterm infants.
The main objective is to determine if ultrasound guided suprainguinal iliac fascia block leads in better clinical outcomes such as pain management or time to home discharge.
Assessing pain in the adult intensive care unit (ICU) is challenging because many patients are unable to communicate due to mechanical ventilation and sedation. Therefore, it is necessary to have alternative methods to assess pain in this vulnerable patient population. In this project, the use of a multi-parameter technology (i.e., the Nociception Level (NOL) index) will be tested for pain assessment in ICU adults. The NOL index is a value from 0 to 100 obtained by calculating different parameters (e.g., pulse, skin temperature) captured through a small probe placed on the patient's finger. The NOL was initially developed for assessing nociception, pain and analgesia in anesthetized patients undergoing surgery, and its use in the ICU is new. The NOL's use before, during and after standard care procedures known to be painful (e.g., tube or drain removal, suctioning of secretions through the endotracheal tube) and non-painful (e.g., cuff inflation to measure blood pressure, soft touch) in ICU adults. The NOL will be monitored in three groups: a) patients able to communicate so they can self-report their pain (gold standard criterion) and express behaviors, b) patients unable to communicate but express behaviors (reference criterion), and c) patients unable to communicate and to express behaviors. In the first group, patients will be asked to self-report their pain and procedural distress on a 0 to 10 scale. In the first and second group, patients will be assessed for pain using a standardized behavioral scale which will be completed by trained research staff. In the third group, only the NOL will be monitored. Analgesic and sedative medication administered to patients will also be documented from medical charts. The ability of the NOL to detect pain based on self-reports of pain and behavioral scores, and its ability to discriminate between painful and non-painful procedures will be examined. If found to be useful, the NOL could be used as an alternative measure of pain and improve its recognition and treatment in vulnerable ICU patients.
Circumcision is one of the most commonly performed operations in the pediatric population and is a painful procedure. Circumcision is performed with two popular techniques, Plastibell and conventional dissection method (CDM). For intra-operative (OP) and post-OP pain relief, two commonly used local anesthetic techniques are caudal block (CB) and dorsal penile block (DPNB) plus ring block (RB) at the base of the penis. There are very few randomized controlled trials comparing these two methods of intra-OP and post-OP pain relief, for different surgical techniques and there is a lack of well-conducted studies comparing the quality of analgesia, need for rescue analgesia in the early post-OP period, complications, and parental satisfaction comparing these blocks. Furthermore, there is a lot of contradiction in the literature regarding the duration of analgesia produced with these techniques.
This study will be conducted to compare the efficacy of ultrasound guided thoracic interfascial plane block versus ultrasound guided erector spinae plane block on acute and chronic pain after modified radical mastectomy surgery.
Assessing postoperative pain after ropivacin 0.5% spray in the abdominal cavity during laparoscopic surgery.
Introduction: Intensive care unit (ICU) is a special department in the health care facility. Although with high development of modern medicine nowadays, the average mortality rate in ICU is still around 7 to 20 %. There are a few tricky problems that intensivists and ICU nurses faced very often, including ICU delirium, arrhythmia and poor digestion problem that will all affect the mortality and morbidity rate of critical care patients. Methods: A randomized control trial will examine the effect of press tack acupuncture vs. press tack placebos. The patients will be randomly divided (1:1) into one of two groups. A total of 80 ICU patients will have to meet the following criteria: age 20-90, newly ICU admission(<48 hours), APACHE score <30, one or no inotropic medicine use, FiO2< 60%. Three interventions will be given in each group. The main outcomes will be the incidence of arrhythmia, delirium, and poor digestion and the severity of pain. We will also record ICU mortality, ICU stays and hospital days.
Sickle cell crisis continues to be a frequent presentation to emergency departments. Patients presenting will often require immediate treatment for their pain and often times this will include opioids. The opioid epidemic has cost thousands of lives; and continues to be a significant problem posing several challenges when treating patients presenting with sickle cell disease. Primarily, opioids remain the mainstay of treatment for these patients and the push to address the opioid crisis may present challenges for adequate opioid administration in patients suffering from a sickle cell crisis while hospitals find ways to curb the opioid crisis overall. Opioid treatment for patients in acute vaso-occlusive crisis has significantly contributed to quality of life and life expectancy of patients with this diagnosis. Measures should continue to attempt to administer a multi-model approach to sickle cell patients to minimize the morphine milligram equivalents in these patients while also successfully addressing the patient's pain. IV lidocaine is a pain medication that has been evaluated in several painful experiences, such as in renal colic. A few case reports have shown IV lidocaine use in sickle cell can be a potential effective adjunct medication to opioids to treat pain and reduce further opioid requirements. Currently, no prospective controlled trial exists to evaluate the true benefit of IV lidocaine in this population. Our study aims to evaluate IV lidocaine as an adjunct to opioid treatment in the emergency department to determine if improved pain is achieved and if there is a reduction in overall morphine milligram equivalents throughout the emergency department visit.
Children presenting to the Emergency Room with the chief complaint of forearm injury and/or pain will be randomized to receive oral Oxycodone or Ibuprofen to control pain.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate and compare the immediate effects of self-hypnosis, mindfulness meditation and a spiritual intervention relative to a control condition for increasing pain tolerance and reducing pain intensity and pain-related stress, in response to experimental painful stimulation.