The Effect of Implementing Pain Control Guidelines on the Pain of Patients Admitted to the Intensive Care Unit

Ghabimi, Mehrangiz and Mahdavipour, Fatemeh and Zarei, Maryam and Mazroei, Raziye and Kamali, Maryam and Askarpour, Aminreza and hojjati, Hamid (2022) The Effect of Implementing Pain Control Guidelines on the Pain of Patients Admitted to the Intensive Care Unit. Journal of Pharmaceutical Negative Results.

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Abstract

Introduction & Objective: Pain is the most important stressor in the intensive care unit (ICU). The use of pain management protocols in the ICU, in addition to reducing anxiety and stress, lowers the duration of hospital stay. Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate the effect of implementing pain control guidelines on the pain of patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU). Methods: This quasi-experimental study was conducted on 54 patients admitted to the ICU, who had been non-randomly allocated into two intervention and a control groups. The data collection tool was the Behavioral Pain Scale (BPS). The pain control guidelines were implemented for patients in the intervention group according to the pain pattern. Results: Repeated measures test showed a significant difference between the intervention and control groups (P <0.01) in terms of pain score, and the highest difference was observed at 1 hour after intervention, where the severity of pain in the intervention group was less than the control group. Discussion and Conclusion: Based on the results of present study, it can be said that the implementation of pain control guidelines has an important role in relieving patients' pain in the ICUs. Therefore, educating and encouraging nurses to use pain control guidelines has an important role in reducing drug side effects and hospitalization time, and also increasing patient satisfaction.

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