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- Title
CHARACTERISTICS OF PAIN IN TRAUMA VICTIMS AT AN EMERGENCY SERVICE.
- Authors
de Oliveira Ribeiro, Maria do Carmo; Umberto Pereira, Carlos; Calil Sallum, Ana Maria; dos Santos, Ana Carla Ferreira Silva; da Silva Nunes, Mariangela; Barreto Alves, José Antonio
- Abstract
Objectives: to characterize the victims of trauma assisted in an emergency service and identify the most frequent type of pain. Method: this is a descriptive and transversal study with a quantitative approach carried out in an emergency service of Hospital de Urgency in Aracaju, Sergipe, Brazil, with 90 victims assisted between June and July 2011, after the approval by the Research Ethics Committee of Federal University of Sergipe, under CAAE 0008.0.107.107-11. The data were analyzed through the software SPSS, version 18.0. The chi-square test was used, with a 5% significance level. Results: we observed that 73.3% of the participants were male, the most frequent age group was from 20 to 29 years and 38.9% were from Aracaju. The onset of pain at the time of trauma was found in 93.3% of cases, out of which 50% reported severe pain. In 61.1% analgesia was used, 45% remained with severe pain after the analgesic peak, 22.5% experienced moderate pain, and only 12.5% had complete relief of pain. Conclusion: inadequate evaluation combined to a treatment different from the gold standard represents negligence in pain control. Descriptors: pain; pain measurement; wounds and injuries; emergency medical services.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; INJURY complications; CHI-squared test; HOSPITAL emergency services; RESEARCH methodology; PAIN; QUANTITATIVE research; PAIN measurement; CROSS-sectional method; DATA analysis software
- Publication
Journal of Nursing UFPE / Revista de Enfermagem UFPE, 2012, Vol 6, Issue 4, p720
- ISSN
1981-8963
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5205/reuol.2226-17588-1-LE.0604201203