Search for dissertations about: "postoperative pain management"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 45 swedish dissertations containing the words postoperative pain management.

2. 11. Postoperative Intrathecal Pain Treatment in Children

   Author : Karin Hesselgard; Neurokirurgi; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Pediatri; intensivvård; Pediatrics; Anaesthesiology; intensive care; Anestesiologi; Pain measurement; Intrathecal pain treatment; Children;

   Abstract : Selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) is an effective operations method that successfully decreased the degree of spasticity with long lasting beneficial effects for children with spastic diplegia. Children undergoing SDR are postoperatively in severe pain, a pain related to both the extensive surgical exposure with multilevel laminotomy and the nerve root manipulation. READ MORE

4. 12. Postoperative Pain Assessment and Management: The Effects of an Educational program on Jordanian nurses’ practice, knowledge, and attitudes

   Author : Maysoon S Abdalrahim; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; postoperative pain; nurses´ knowledge; nurses´ attitudes; surgical wards; pain management program; Jordan;

   Abstract : Aims: The overall aims of this thesis was describe the current nursing postoperative pain assessment and management practices in the surgical wards in Jordan and evaluate the effectiveness of implementing a ostoperative pain management (POPM) program in improving the Jordanian nurses’ POP assessment and management practices in the surgical wards. Lewin’s Force-Field Model for change provided the structure for planning for and implementing the POPM program. READ MORE

5. 13. Pain following Surgery: Management, Outcome, and Prediction

   Author : Åsa Rudin; Anestesiologi och intensivvård; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; intensivvård; Epidural analgesia; Outcome; Prediction.; Anaesthesiology; intensive care; Anestesiologi; Postoperative pain; Patient controlled analgesia;

   Abstract : Despite advances in the treatment of postoperative pain, nearly 30% of patients experience moderate to severe pain following major surgery. The present thesis includes four studies intended to evaluate important aspects of postoperative pain. READ MORE

6. 14. Acute pain in pedatric patients : aspects of pain management and pain assessment

   Author : Leena Jylli; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : Children; acute pain; pain assessment; pain management;

   Abstract : Despite advances in pain management, children's pain continue to be frequently unrecognized, dismissed and ineffectively managed while children are hospitalized. The overall purpose of this thesis was to evaluate and improve pain management and pain assessment among pediatric patients with acute pain. READ MORE

7. 15. A new technique for postoperative pain management with local anesthetic after abdominal hysterectomy

   Author : Andrea Perniola; Kjell Axelsson; Anil Gupta; Johan Lundberg; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; local anesthetics; postoperative pain; abdominal hysterectomy; intra-peritoneal; catheter; Lidocaine; Levobupivacaine; Medicin; Medicine;

   Abstract : An abdominal hysterectomy (AH) is associated with moderate to severe postoperative pain. In this thesis, a new technique for postoperative pain managment has been studied in 200 patients: local anesthetic (LA) was administered intraperitoneally (IP) after elective AH. READ MORE