Pain, Postoperative - Diagnosis
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Pediatric nurses' thinking in response to vignettes on administering analgesics.

29 Sep 2009 Pediatric nurses are not administering available and recommended analgesics to hospitalized children after surgery. This descriptive study was conducted to examine 30 pediatric nurses' thinking-in response to case study vignettes-about pain ... Read more...

Pediatric pain after ambulatory surgery: where's the medication?

5 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this controlled study was to provide a description of children's postoperative pain, including pain intensity and analgesic consumption. METHODS: Participants included 261 children, 2 to 12 years of age, undergoing routine ... Read more...

Monitoring electrical skin conductance: a tool for the assessment of postoperative pain in children?

30 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: Monitoring changes in electrical skin conductance has been described as a potentially useful tool for the detection of acute pain in adults. The aim of this study was to test the method in pediatric patients. METHODS: A total of 180 ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Pain, Postoperative - Diagnosis'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Pediatric nurses' thinking in response to vignettes on administering analgesics. 29 Sep 2009
• Pediatric pain after ambulatory surgery: where's the medication? 5 Sep 2009
• Monitoring electrical skin conductance: a tool for the assessment of postoperative pain in children? 30 Aug 2009
• Predictors of postoperative pain and analgesic consumption: a qualitative systematic review. 30 Aug 2009
• The perioperative validity of the visual analog anxiety scale in children: a discriminant and useful instrument in routine clinical practice to optimize postoperative pain management. 30 Aug 2009
• Effects of eccentric compression by a crossed-tape technique after endovenous laser ablation of the great saphenous vein: a randomized study. 30 Jul 2009
• The effective analgesic dose of dexamethasone after laparoscopic hysterectomy. 30 Jul 2009
• [Thoracic paravertebral block] 21 Jul 2009
• [Postoperative use of injectable morphine] 29 Jun 2009
• What should the researchers do when they are not able to reproduce their own findings? 29 Jun 2009
• Will the addition of a sciatic nerve block to a femoral nerve block provide better pain control following anterior cruciate ligament repair surgery? 30 May 2009
• [Comparison of the peripheral and central effects of opiates after iliac crest transplants. Reconstruction of severely atrophied maxilla] 30 May 2009
• A randomised controlled trial to compare postoperative pain in children undergoing tonsillectomy using cold steel dissection with bipolar haemostasis versus coblation technique. 30 May 2009
• Influences on nurses' scoring of children's post-operative pain. 30 May 2009
• Ebstein's anomaly: a complex congenital heart defect. 30 May 2009
• Anterior iliopsoas impingement and tendinitis after total hip arthroplasty. 30 May 2009
• Validation of the Turkish version of the Brief Pain Inventory in surgery patients. 30 May 2009
• Can we predict persistent postoperative pain by testing preoperative experimental pain? 30 May 2009
• The time course of range of motion loss after cervical laminoplasty: a prospective study with minimum two-year follow-up. 13 May 2009
• Reply to: "Requirements for applying a case-control study model and clinical significance of changes in the visual analogue scale score in abdominal pain". 12 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Pain, Postoperative'

Definition: Pain during the period after surgery.

Descriptor UI: D010149

Alternative terms: Pain, Postoperative; Postoperative Pain; Postoperative Pains;

Allowable Qualifiers: congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology; blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications;

Tree Number: C23.550.767.700; C23.888.646.530;

History Note: 74

Technical Notes: DF: PAIN POSTOP or POSTOP PAIN