Cesarean Postoperative Pain Satisfaction

Cesarean Postoperative Pain Satisfaction With Intravenous Patient-Controlled Analgesia Intravenous, Oral, or Epidural Method

Hypothesis:

There is no significant difference in Cesarean patients' perceptions of overall pain management satisfaction between methods used for postoperative pain management.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Cesarean

Detailed Description

There is a significant difference between Cesarean patients' perceptions of advantages and disadvantages of three postoperative pain management methods identified by obstetrical patients.

Participants will be introduced to study by anesthesia personnel in labor and delivery. The subject will be informed of the desire for their input on their perceived satisfaction with their chosen method for post-operative pain management and will be asked to participate in an anonymous survey by their second day after surgery. They will be informed that this is voluntary. Method of post-operative medication administration will be determined by attending physician to be either: epidural, IVPCA, or oral medication. Methods will be initiated in recovery room or the operative suite.

Subjects will be identified on a postpartum admission log and a screening log will be created for study purposes.

Informed Consents will be obtained. The screening log entries will be numbered corresponding to a numbered survey. The screening log will contain demographic and other patient identifiers including age, ethnicity, parity, presence of labor prior to cesarean, admission status of baby, cost associated with method and presence of rescue drugs and costs of rescue drugs and method services. Refusal information, exclusion criteria, and time/date of survey completion will also be recorded. This log will be maintained under lock and key.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 120

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Nebraska
    • Lincoln, Nebraska, United States, 68510
      • Saint Elizabeth Regional Medical Center

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 14 years to 40 years (Child, Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: Female

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

post-operative cesarean patients

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• English speaking post-operative cesarean patients

Exclusion Criteria:

• Cesarean patients with know fetal demise
• General/Local Anesthetic Method for Cesarean

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Saint Elizabeth Regional Medical Center
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Deb Chambers, RN, Saint Elizabeth Regional Medical Center

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: June 1, 2009
• Primary Completion (Actual): August 1, 2009
• Study Completion (Actual): December 1, 2009

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: June 16, 2009
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 16, 2009
• First Posted (Estimate): June 17, 2009

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): July 20, 2011
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 19, 2011
• Last Verified: July 1, 2011

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Pathologic Processes; Postoperative Complications; Pain; Neurologic Manifestations; Pain, Postoperative
• Other Study ID Numbers: 608-028