Κατεύθυνση Μονάδες Εντατικής Θεραπείας και Επείγουσα Νοσηλευτική
Library of the School of Health Sciences

2018-06-21

2018

Manali Irini

Δημήτριος Παπαγεωργίου, Επίκουρος Καθηγητής, Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Αντωνία Καλλογιάννη, Λέκτορας Εφαρμογών Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Γεώργιος Βασιλόπουλος, Επίκουρος Καθηγητής, Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής

Φαρμακευτική αντιμετώπιση οξέως άλγους στο τμήμα επειγόντων περιστατικών

Greek

Analgesia to the emergency departement

Introduction: Pain is the most common reason of administration at the emergency department including more than 40% of one million visitations per year. Many times yet, pain is undertreated and patients leave the emergency department without adequate treatment for their pain.
Purpose: The purpose of the current study was to register and documentate the adequate and enough administration of analgesia to patients who came to the emergency department with prior symptom pain.
Methods: The current study is a research cross-sectional study with population of 156 patients who visited the emergency department of a busy public hospital in Athens with prior symptom pain from 19/04/2016 until 17/08/2016. For the data collection the following were used: a) a questionnaire of demographic and clinical characteristics and b) a ten pointed numerical assessment scale of pain. For the comparison of the quantitative variables between two groups Student's t-test or Mann-Whitney criterion was used. For the comparison of pain between 1st and 2nd measurement Paired t-test was used. For documentation of differences between patients in pain who took analgesia and patients who did not take any analgesia ANOVA test was used. Statistical significance was set to 0,05. SPSS 19.0 program was used for all the analysis.
Results: 52,3% of the patients were given analgesia with average time of administration 13,8 minutes from the time entering the doctor's office at the emergency department.
Conclusions: The findings of the study indicate that management and treatment of pain at the emergency department is not adequate since half of the patients left without any analgesia. Judging from the results measures need to be taken such as the organization of educational programs, the addition of a pain scale next to the vital signs of the patients and the application of international organizations guidelines so as the problem of oligoanalgesia at the emergency department is going to be solved.

Health Sciences

Acute, Pain, Emergency, Department, Analgesia

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