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- Title
Knowledge of doctors and nurses on pain in patients undergoing craniotomy.
- Authors
do Carmo de Oliveira Ribeiro, Maria; Umberto Pereira, Carlos; Calil Sallum, Ana Maria; Barreto Alves, .Iosé Antonio; Freitas Albuquerque, Marcelly; Akemi Fujushima, Paula
- Abstract
The study objectives were to characterize the profile of the doctors and nurses caring for patients in the craniotomy postoperative period, checking pain assessment methods and to identify the existence of analgesia protocols. Cross-sectional and analytical study. The casuistry is constituted of 30 doctors and 30 nurses. The results revealed that 83.3 % of the nurses were female, 63.3% knew pain scales, and 16.6% said that analgesia protocols exist. Regarding doctors 60% were male, 70% knew the pain scales, 3.3% had specialization in pain treatment, 13.3% they stated that there are analgesia protocols. The ignorance on the part of doctors and nurses about the assessment scales and pain assessment methods reveals the need for the creation of institutional policies on controlling pain, the use of instruments for the measurement of the pain phenomenon and analgesia protocols in the institution.
- Subjects
PAIN management; PAIN measurement; ACTIVE oxygen in the body; CHI-squared test; CRANIOTOMY; FISHER exact test; HEALTH care teams; NURSES; PATIENT-controlled analgesia; PHYSICIANS; PROFESSIONS; RESEARCH; CROSS-sectional method; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem (RLAE), 2012, Vol 20, Issue 6, p1057
- ISSN
1518-8345
- Publication type
Article