Journal of Perianesthesia Nursing : Official Journal of the American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses

PURPOSE: The aim of the study was to determine if children were given the right to prefer one parent to accompany them during the perioperative period would impact their anxiety levels. DESIGN: Prospective observational cohort study. METHODS: The study included 80 children of both genders, aged 4 to 12 years, who underwent day-case surgeries in the Ear Nose and Throat Clinic of Karaman Training and Research Hospital. The patients were separated randomly into two groups of 40...

PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to determine the effect of the education provided to patients who would undergo mastectomy on psychological well-being and quality of recovery. DESIGN: The study had a randomized controlled trial design. METHODS: The study was completed with 62 patients (30 in the experimental group and 32 in the control group). The experimental group received education the day before the operation, and the applications were made 3 days after the operation...

PURPOSE: This study aimed to determine the subjective psychological well-being levels and sociodemographic and psychosocial factors affecting the psychological well-being of preoperative surgical patients. DESIGN: This was a cross-sectional study. METHODS: This study was conducted between January 15, 2021 and July 15, 2021. The sample consisted of 236 surgical patients in a public hospital in the Thrace region of Turkey. Data were collected using a personal information form and the five-item World Health Organization Well-Being Index (WHO-5)...

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PURPOSES: To determine if opioid-free anesthesia, opioid-sparing anesthesia, or multimodal analgesia improved outcomes in patients undergoing spinal fusion. DESIGN: A literature review was performed by searching PubMed, CINAHL, Embase, Web of Science, and Cochrane Library. METHODS: MeSH terms included "opioid free" AND "spine surgery," with alternative terms used including: regional anesthesia, multimodal analgesia, opioid-free anesthesia, enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS), spinal surgery, spinal fusion, ACDF, cervical fusion, lumbar fusion, etc...

PURPOSE: This study aims to evaluate the effects of listening to music on preoperative anxiety levels in individuals planned for urological surgery. DESIGN: The study was a pretest-post-test randomized controlled study. METHODS: This research was conducted with 80 (intervention=40, control=40) individuals who applied to the urology clinic of a university hospital between September 2021 and February 2022 with surgery planned. The data were collected via the information form, state-trait anxiety inventory (STAI= STAI-S: state anxiety, STAI-T: trait anxiety), anxiety specific to surgery questionnaire (ASSQ)...

PURPOSE: Developing strategies to educate, employ, and retain newly graduated nurses in perioperative (periop) settings is paramount to addressing a succession crisis with unprecedented vacancy rates. The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of a prelicensure periop elective on the decision of participants to seek and accept a periop position upon graduation and to describe their transition to practice experience. DESIGN: This study used qualitative descriptive methodology...

PURPOSE: This study aimed to develop the inadvertent perioperative hypothermia knowledge test (IPH-KT) for health care professionals and examine its validity and reliability. DESIGN: The methodological and cross-sectional study design was used. METHODS: The research was carried out with 326 nursing students in Turkey. Data for the study were collected using a demographic information form and the IPH-KT. FINDINGS: The item difficulty index and item distinctiveness index of the questions included in the draft form of the 25-item test ranged from 0...

PURPOSE: The aim of this project was to investigate whether opioid pain scores, postoperative opioid requirements, and postanesthesia care unit (PACU) length of stay were impacted when comparing a 24-hour intravenous lidocaine infusion versus postoperative discontinuation of the lidocaine infusion. DESIGN: A retrospective chart review was used both before and after the discontinuation of postoperative lidocaine infusions for a quality improvement project. METHODS: The project was carried out in the adult surgery PACU setting at a level 1 trauma center between April 2021 and September 2021...

PURPOSE: Dexmedetomidine, the preferred pediatric sedating agent for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), has the side effect of hypotension. Newer recommendations for reporting adverse events in pediatric procedural sedation include using a two-pronged definition. Our aim was to describe the incidence of hypotension in patients undergoing sedated MRI and to identify demographic and clinical factors associated with hypotension, applying a two-pronged definition, where a numerical threshold/clinical criterion must be met as well as at least one clinical intervention performed...

PURPOSE: This study aimed to investigate and compare the surgical outcomes of younger and older patients after abdominal surgery and explore risk factors related to postoperative complications and in-hospital mortality in patients ≥65 years old. DESIGN: A retrospective study on 540 adult patients who underwent abdominal surgery and stayed more than 48 hours in the hospital. METHODS: The two groups of patients: younger than 65 years and ≥65 years old were compared related to postoperative complications, length of hospital stay, and mortality rates...

PURPOSE: To examine whether patient involvement using a Patient Decision Aid has a positive effect on pain levels, by giving them an active role in choosing a pain schedule for postoperative pain assessment and pain management. DESIGN: A nonmatched case-control study. METHODS: 101 adults 18 years or older were included to choose between 1 of 3 possible schedules for postoperative pain management. Perioperative variables, for example, patients' assessments of pain were registered at the hospital and further variables after discharge at postoperative day 1 (POD1), POD3, and POD7, for example, patients' ability to sleep and assessment of nausea...

PURPOSE: Sevoflurane is an inhalational general anaesthetic that has been used recently to treat chronic, painful lesions, reportedly supporting analgesia and wound healing. The potential for repeated exposure to off-gassed sevoflurane vapor, especially outside the air-conditioned operating theatre environment, is of some concern. DESIGN: This paper explores the qualitative and quantitative pathing of off-gassed sevoflurane from a topically applied liquid source...

PURPOSE: To identify pharmacological and nonpharmacological interventions adopted for pain relief in the postoperative period of coronary artery bypass graft surgery. DESIGN: Integrative review. METHODS: Studies published in English, Spanish, and Portuguese from January 2010 to December 2019 in Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Latin American and Caribbean Literature on Health Science, PubMed, and Web of Science...