Engelsk titel: Postoperative analgesia in patients with chronic pain
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Författare:
Hanghöj Tei RM
Email: randi@as.aaa.dk
Språk: Dan
Antal referenser: 19
Dokumenttyp:
Översikt
UI-nummer: 07093240
Sammanfattning
Nurses play an essential role in the postoperative treatment of patients with chronic pain since their intervention can have a positive effect on the situation. If nurses are to provide optimum postoperative care to patients it is important that they have knowledge of pain treatment. Nursing patients with chronic pain presents an extra challenge. The patient will often have an enhanced need for analgesics after surgery, regardless of whether s/he is under preoperative opiate treat-ment and will frequently have a special need for continuity in pain treatment both before and after surgery.
The article describes the principles of postoperative pharmacological treatment, with the focus on patients with chronic pain. Calculation examples are given for on demand dosage and specific equipotent opiate doses, and a concrete example of a template for opiate withdrawal is also included.