The Importance of Anesthesia in Pain Management and Patient Comfort and Assessment Patient Satisfaction
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https://doi.org/10.51699/ijhsms.v2i10.2725Keywords:
Pain management, Anesthesia, quality of health care, and Patient satisfaction.Abstract
Background Pain management is considered as a basic factor for patients during perioperative care to get perfect comfort and, ensure the satisfaction of patients, and enhance the clinical outcomes of surgery.
Objective This study aimed to investigate the role of pain management in relation to patient comfort and to evaluate patient satisfaction with clinical outcomes following surgery.
Patients and methods Our study was presented a complete analysis to assess patients who underwent of anaesthesia and its role in patient comfort and patients’ satisfaction. This study was performed on 84 cases in both genders associated with women and men with ages range between 30-70 years. Our study was characterized to perform assess of patients’ satisfaction about those who had undergone of anaesthesia in three types of surgeries: general surgery, orthopaedics, and urology. Also, the anaesthesia used are two consists of general and regional anaesthetics. Our data were collected from different hospitals in Iraq from 14th July 2022 to 8th August 2023, where this data was recovered and analysed by the SPSS program.
Results and Discussion Age is an important and affected aspect on patients who underwent anaesthesia. Where patients have ages over than 50 could be affected by postoperative pain, where the rate of males have been found higher 63.4% more than that of females 36.6%. In addition to that, the clinical outcomes were indicated postoperative pain management where pastients who used non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs with 82.93%, while opioid analgesics were 10.98% and others 6.10%. In the baseline characteristics of pain management, postoperative pain was classified as a degree of pain; the patients have no pain enrolled 48.78%, and patients with mild pain was 24.39%, while severe pain was 7.32%. In an aspect of the level of satisfaction, our clinical study was found the rate of patients who were strongly satisfied with the anesthesia used were 60.98% and strongly dissatisfied was 2.44%, where postoperative pain was 89% with less than 10 minutes while others have pain with higher than 10 minutes.
Conclusion Our study was showed that satisfaction level was considered an important side of medical care through anaesthesia affects in pain management where half of the patients have not pain; 61% of patients were strongly satisfied, and 22% of patients were satisfied.
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