Can a nurse-based, anesthesiologist-supervised model reduce prevalence of postoperative pain in pediatric patients?
Comparison of 2 treatment model in reducing prevalence of postoperative pain in pediatric patients: Conventional model(C): Nurses give fixed-dose analgesic according to surgeons' prescription Study model(S): Nurses give initial-dose analgesic according to surgeons' prescription. In case of inadequate pain relief, another half of initial dose will be given twice at 15-min interval and acute pain service will be consulted if there is still pain.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
103
Conventional model(C): Nurses give fixed-dose analgesic according to surgeons' prescription Study model(S): Nurses give initial-dose analgesic according to surgeons' prescription. In case of inadequate pain relief, another half of initial dose will be given twice at 15-min interval and acute pain service will be consulted if there is still pain.
Departnment of Anesthesiology,Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University
Bangkok, Thailand
RECRUITINGprevalence of patients with moderate to severe pain more than once in first postoperative day
moderate to severe pain = Neonatal Infant Pain Scale =,\>4 or CHEOPS =,\>8 or Verbal numerating scale =,\>4
Time frame: 24 hours
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