Perioperative pain management barriers in cardiac surgery: Should we persevere?

The adequate management of pain is a prime concern for health care professionals as under-treatment of pain can lead to increased postoperative morbidity (Cogan, 2010), including intractable chronic pain (Kehlet, Jensen,& Woolf, 2006) and prolonged or repeated hospital admission (Kilic et al., 2016). Despite interest and efforts by many over the last 30years acute postoperative pain after general surgery (Maier et al., 2010; Taylor et al., 2013) and after cardiac surgery (Choiniere et al., 2014) remains inadequately managed.

Source: Applied Nursing Research : ANR - February 1, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Jennifer Cogan, Marie-France Ouimette, Zeynep Yegin, V éronique Ferland, Grisell Vargas, Jean Lambert, Antoine G. Rochon, Sylvain Belisle Source Type: research