Anesthesia and analgesia
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Anesthesia and analgesia · Mar 2019
Evaluation of the Determinants of Satisfaction With Postoperative Pain Control After Thoracoscopic Surgery: A Single-Center, Survey-Based Study.
The need to measure, compare, and improve the quality of pain management is important to patients, payers, and health care providers. Pain after thoracic surgery can be severe, and thoracoscopic approaches have not had the favorable impact on pain as anticipated. The aim of this study was to evaluate the determinants of patient satisfaction with acute pain management and the effectiveness of pain control after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery using a modified version of the Revised American Pain Society Patient Outcome Questionnaire. ⋯ Our findings highlight several factors associated with patient satisfaction with acute postoperative pain management. Interventions focused on achieving acceptable pain levels for the majority of the time, ensuring that patients are able to get sleep, providing patients with helpful information about their pain treatment, and, most importantly, allowing patients to participate in decisions about their pain management may improve patient satisfaction with postoperative pain management.