Patients' Experiences of Pain and Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting in the Early Postoperative Period After an Elective Knee Arthroplasty
2020 (English)In: Journal of Perianesthesia Nursing, ISSN 1089-9472, E-ISSN 1532-8473, Vol. 35, no 4, p. 382-388Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Purpose
The aim of this study is to explore patients' experience of pain and postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) in the early postoperative period after knee arthroplasties.
Design
This is a retrospective cohort study with a quantitative approach. Data from patients registered in the Swedish Perioperative Registry were used. We used the Strenghtening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) guidelines for cross-sectional studies.
Methods
Data were collected from patients (N = 439) undergoing knee arthroplasties. The analysis was performed with descriptive and analytic statistics.
Findings
The findings indicate that women experienced significantly higher levels of pain than men and suffered significantly more often from PONV. However, the relationship of postoperative pain and PONV was not significant. There was also no significance for the relationship among postoperative pain, PONV, and age.
Conclusions
Care needs to be sensitive to differences in experiencing pain and PONV depending on sex or gender bias, with a goal of increasing the equality in care.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier, 2020. Vol. 35, no 4, p. 382-388
Keywords [en]
postoperative, pain, PONV, knee arthroplasty, sex
National Category
Nursing
Research subject
Nursing
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-77115DOI: 10.1016/j.jopan.2019.11.010ISI: 000554710500008PubMedID: 32340790Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85083659347OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-77115DiVA, id: diva2:1376558
Note
Validerad;2020;Nivå 2;2020-08-17 (marisr)
2019-12-092019-12-092023-09-05Bibliographically approved