Prevalence and Influence of Gender, Age, and Type of Surgery on Postoperative Pain

Abstract

This study demonstrated that an elevated number of patients experience pain in the first 24 hours after the surgery. The incidence of pain was higher in patients undergoing general surgery.

Dor e analgesia pós-operatória: análise dos registros em prontuários

“…With regard to female gender, in addition to being submitted to general corrective surgeries, they in general look for cosmetic surgeries aiming at remaining young. A similar study carried out with 187 patients in surgical wards has analyzed the magnitude of postoperative pain taking into consideration gender and type of surgery and has found demographic results close to our study: most patients were females (128, 66.8%) with mean age of 45.8 years and 47 (25.1%) were 60 years old or above 5 . Table 1 has shown that general surgeries were the most prevalent.…”

“…As to location, predominance of the abdominal region is probably due to the fact that most patients had been submitted to general surgeries. Other authors 5 have also found the same result. When associating POP to type of surgery, patients submitted to general surgeries (inguinal and umbilical hernia repair, conventional and laparoscopic cholecystectomy and exploratory laparotomy) have reported more severe pain as compared to other surgeries.…”

Evaluation of postoperative analgesia with intraperitoneal ropivacaine instillation in videolaparoscopic cholecystectomy

“…Post-VC pain has three components: incisional, visceral and referred, the latter in general in the shoulder 3 . In addition to discomfort and postoperative physiological repercussions, such as respiratory restriction, tachycardia and hypertension, pain delays early ambulation and hospital discharge 4,5 . Multimodal analgesia has been used to minimize post-VC pain, including the perioperative use of non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), opioids, N-methyl D-aspartate receptor inhibitors (NMDA), anticonvulsants and local anesthetic infiltration in the surgical wound.…”

Efficacy of a pain therapy protocol following gynaecological surgery

“…Several studies report that the management of acute postoperative pain is still ineffective and that different pain scales and criteria for assessment are used (4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11). …”