New York City-based Mount Sinai School of Medicine researchers have identified reliable pain predictors by surveying pain severity and patient satisfaction with pain management after patients' hospital stays.
The researchers found that patients with moderate or severe pain were more likely to be younger, female, admitted for longer hospital stays or using psychoactive medications. Surgical patients reported a greater pain severity.
For patients undergoing lower extremity joint replacement, an average pain level of 5 (on a scale of 0 to 10) was reported on the first day after surgery. As a result, the department of orthopedics developed a new protocol to include oral and intravenous medications and allowed the use of epidural morphine outside of the intensive care setting to decrease the pain level to three.
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The researchers found that patients with moderate or severe pain were more likely to be younger, female, admitted for longer hospital stays or using psychoactive medications. Surgical patients reported a greater pain severity.
For patients undergoing lower extremity joint replacement, an average pain level of 5 (on a scale of 0 to 10) was reported on the first day after surgery. As a result, the department of orthopedics developed a new protocol to include oral and intravenous medications and allowed the use of epidural morphine outside of the intensive care setting to decrease the pain level to three.
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