NCT01325077

Efficacy of a Nurse-based, Anesthesiologist-supervised Acute Pain Service for Pediatric Patients

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 103 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Mahidol University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 31 Days – 15 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Can a nurse-based, anesthesiologist-supervised model reduce prevalence of postoperative pain in pediatric patients?

Detailed description

Comparison of 2 treatment model in reducing prevalence of postoperative pain in pediatric patients: Conventional model(C): Nurses give fixed-dose analgesic according to surgeons' prescription Study model(S): Nurses give initial-dose analgesic according to surgeons' prescription. In case of inadequate pain relief, another half of initial dose will be given twice at 15-min interval and acute pain service will be consulted if there is still pain.

Conditions

• Postoperative Pain
• Satisfaction

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	model of health care service	Conventional model(C): Nurses give fixed-dose analgesic according to surgeons' prescription Study model(S): Nurses give initial-dose analgesic according to surgeons' prescription. In case of inadequate pain relief, another half of initial dose will be given twice at 15-min interval and acute pain service will be consulted if there is still pain.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-03-01
• Primary completion: 2011-10-01
• Completion: 2011-10-01
• First posted: 2011-03-29
• Last updated: 2011-03-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Thailand