Pain in cardiac surgery and the nursing approach

Fatma Eti Aslan,

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2012.036

Fatma Eti Aslan¹, Fatma Demir Korkmaz², Ükke Karabacak¹

¹Department of Nursing, Acıbadem University, Faculty of Health Sciences, İstanbul
²Department of Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Ege University, İzmir

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2012.036

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Pain is a universal experience that everybody experiences during some period of their lifetime. However, some diagnostic and treatment procedures in healthcare cause patients to suffer from long-term and severe pain. Cardiac surgery is one of these procedures. In this article, the causes of pain, the effects of pain on the patient and pain relief approaches in cardiac surgery are discussed.

Keywords : Cardiac surgery; pain; pain control

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