Seda Nur Çatal MSc, RN , Yeşim Yaman Aktaş PhD, RN
{"title":"Pain Intensity After Cardiac Surgery and its Association With Kinesiophobia: A Descriptive Study","authors":"Seda Nur Çatal MSc, RN , Yeşim Yaman Aktaş PhD, RN","doi":"10.1016/j.jopan.2024.04.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jopan.2024.04.008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><div>Severe pain and fear of pain may decrease physical activity and restrict movements after cardiac surgery. This study aimed to determine pain intensity after cardiac surgery and its association with kinesiophobia.</div></div><div><h3>Design</h3><div>This was a descriptive and correlational study.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>The study was conducted with cardiac surgery patients (n = 170). The sample size was calculated by using the G*POWER 3.1 program. According to the power analysis, the sample size was calculated as 170, taking into account the dependent variable with the largest sample size (kinesiophobia) and 20% loss. The outcome measures were pain and kinesiophobia collected using the Visual Analog Scale and Tampa Kinesiophobia Scale.</div></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><div>Married patients were at the greatest risk for kinesiophobia, higher than that for single patients (β = −3.765, β = −3.609; <em>P</em> < .05). Obese patients were at the greatest risk for kinesiophobia higher when compared to patients of normal weight (β = −2.907, <em>P</em> < .05). No statistically significant correlation was found between the pain intensity and kinesiophobia scores (<em>P</em> > 0.05).</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Kinesiophobia was higher in patients after cardiac surgery. Married and obese patients were predictors of kinesiophobia; however, pain was not associated with kinesiophobia.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49028,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Perianesthesia Nursing","volume":"40 2","pages":"Pages 288-293"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141876459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of Virtual Reality on Preoperative Anxiety in Adult Patients: An Updated Meta-analysis","authors":"Hongyan Xu BSN,RN , Jiakun Hou MSN,RN , Jing Zhou BSN,RN, Shanshan Wang MSN,RN","doi":"10.1016/j.jopan.2024.05.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jopan.2024.05.009","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><div>To determine the effectiveness of virtual reality (VR) on preoperative anxiety in adult patients.</div></div><div><h3>Design</h3><div>A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>A systematic search was carried out using PubMed, Web of Science, the Cochrane Library, Embase, CINAHL, Scopus, PsycINFO, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), WANFANG DATA, Chinese Science and Technology Periodical Database (VIP), and Sino-Med from inception to December 18, 2022. All eligible randomized controlled trials published were included (published in English and Chinese). The Cochrane Collaboration “Risk of Bias” tool was used to assess the methodological quality of the included studies. Review Manager software 5.4 was used for data analysis.</div></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><div>Nine studies with sample sizes ranging from 72 to 255 and 1,046 participants were identified. The results of the meta-analysis showed that VR significantly reduced preoperative anxiety in adults (standardized mean difference = −0.48, 95% CI: −0.93 to −0.03, <em>P</em> = .04). Our results suggested that VR improved postoperative satisfaction scores more effectively compared with control care (mean difference = 15.29, 95% CI: 6.25 to 24.33, <em>P</em> = .0009).</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Study results support that VR has a positive effect in reducing preoperative anxiety in adults. VR can also significantly improve patients' satisfaction after surgery. However, the results need to be further assessed due to the small sample sizes and high heterogeneity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49028,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Perianesthesia Nursing","volume":"40 2","pages":"Pages 422-430.e3"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142330674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Basudev Pati MBBS, Venkata Ganesh MD, Naveen Naik B MD, Ajay Singh MD
{"title":"Comments on: The Effect of Melatonin on Analgesia, Anxiety, and Intraocular Pressure (IOP) in Cataract Surgery Under Topical Anesthesia","authors":"Basudev Pati MBBS, Venkata Ganesh MD, Naveen Naik B MD, Ajay Singh MD","doi":"10.1016/j.jopan.2024.05.014","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jopan.2024.05.014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49028,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Perianesthesia Nursing","volume":"40 2","pages":"Pages 249-250"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143746535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhehuan Zhang MD, Tianchen Wu MBBS, Anken Wang MD, Chenhao Yang MD, PhD
{"title":"A 5-Year Clinical Experience of Pediatric Ophthalmic Ambulatory Surgery Under General Anesthesia From a Chinese Tertiary Children's Hospital","authors":"Zhehuan Zhang MD, Tianchen Wu MBBS, Anken Wang MD, Chenhao Yang MD, PhD","doi":"10.1016/j.jopan.2024.04.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jopan.2024.04.011","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><div>Ambulatory surgery (same-day or day surgery) is an efficient medical practice. However, there were few reports regarding the safety of ophthalmic ambulatory surgery for children under general anesthesia. This study aims to explore its clinical complications.</div></div><div><h3>Design</h3><div>A retrospective observational study.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>The clinical data of pediatric patients who received ambulatory ophthalmic surgery under general anesthesia at the Children’s Hospital of Fudan University from January 2015 to December 2019 were analyzed retrospectively. Postoperative complications, unplanned reoperation, delayed discharge, and other adverse events were analyzed.</div></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><div>Consecutive patients (N = 4,616) had an average age of 4.6 ± 2.6 years. The primary surgical procedures included chalazion incision and curettage (62.89%), strabismus surgery (18.98%), trichiasis surgery (14.36%), eyelid or orbital mass resection (2.49%), blepharoptosis surgery (0.91%), and other procedures (0.37%). The average operative time was 25.28 ± 20.45 minutes (n = 2,698), while the average length of hospital stay was 8.45 ± 2.61 hours. No serious adverse events or death happened. One case had delayed postoperative hemorrhage, one had a postoperative infection, and two had delayed discharge. The rate of unplanned reoperation was 0.39% 90 days after surgery, with recurrence of chalazion and postoperative complications of ptosis as the primary reasons.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Pediatric ophthalmic ambulatory surgery under general anesthesia is a feasible and efficient operation mode with few complications for simple procedures with good general conditions. Further randomized controlled studies are needed to provide strong evidence of the safety and socioeconomic efficacy of this mode.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49028,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Perianesthesia Nursing","volume":"40 2","pages":"Pages 300-304"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141903352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Åsa Bromfalk CRNA , Magnus Hultin PhD, MD , Jakob Walldén PhD, MD , Tomi Myrberg PhD, MD , Åsa Engström PhD, CCRN
{"title":"Perioperative Staff’s Experiences of Premedication for Children","authors":"Åsa Bromfalk CRNA , Magnus Hultin PhD, MD , Jakob Walldén PhD, MD , Tomi Myrberg PhD, MD , Åsa Engström PhD, CCRN","doi":"10.1016/j.jopan.2024.05.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jopan.2024.05.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><div>Providing perioperative care for children who express anxiety or react with negative anxiety-associated consequences can be a challenge. The use of premedication is established as an important intervention for young children before surgery, yet research into care providers’ experiences of premedication is limited. The aim of this study was to explore perioperative staff’s experiences of premedication for preschool-age children.</div></div><div><h3>Design</h3><div>A descriptive inductive qualitative study was performed based on focus group discussions.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>A purposive sample of a team from the operating department with experience in anesthetizing and caring for children in the perioperative period was interviewed in small focus groups: five preoperative and postoperative care nurses, five nurse anesthetists, and five anesthesiologists. The transcribed text was categorized using qualitative content analysis.</div></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><div>The content analysis revealed three themes: a matter of time, do not wake the sleeping bear, and on responsive tiptoes.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Care providers must adapt their work to the child’s emotional state of mind and needs, allowing time for the child to trust and accept the premedication and for the premedication to reach its peak effect. Premedication provides light sleep preoperatively, which requires careful treatment of the child to avoid emotional reactions, and the postoperative path is most peaceful when the premedication supports a long duration of sedation. Our findings highlight the need for safety precautions and a permissive and flexible organization with the goal of achieving a smooth and safe journey for the child in the perioperative path.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49028,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Perianesthesia Nursing","volume":"40 2","pages":"Pages 310-317"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141789560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jamie L. Reddinger DNP, CPNP – AC/PC, CSN, Jennifer Dickman DNP, RN, CPN, Slava Martyn MD
{"title":"Improvement of Perioperative Efficiency via Pediatric Preanesthesia Respiratory Risk Training","authors":"Jamie L. Reddinger DNP, CPNP – AC/PC, CSN, Jennifer Dickman DNP, RN, CPN, Slava Martyn MD","doi":"10.1016/j.jopan.2024.04.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jopan.2024.04.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><div>This process improvement to the registered nurse (RN) preanesthesia telephone call interview applied an evidence-based bundle of interventions to improve perioperative efficiency. The overarching aim was to decrease RN subjectivity regarding pediatric upper respiratory tract infection (URI) symptoms during the preoperative telephone call family outreach interview to allow for early identification of respiratory illness that could lead to a day of surgery (DOS) cancellation.</div></div><div><h3>Design</h3><div>The design was an evidence-based process improvement with a pretest post-test design.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>An E-learning module, on pediatric preanesthesia respiratory risk training, was delivered to the RN telephone call staff. An anesthesiology-created pediatric URI algorithm with use of the Current signs and symptoms, Onset, Lung disease, airway Device, Surgery (COLDS) score, a preanesthetic risk score for children with URI symptoms, were used to trigger consultation with anesthesiology for URI symptoms. Anesthesiology consultation cards following situation-background-assessment-recommendation were used to streamline consultation with an anesthesiology attending physician. Predata were obtained from the Quality Report Card on patient illness cancellations made both on the preoperative telephone call and DOS from the previous 24 months. A plan-do-study-act cycle was completed over 10 weeks.</div></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><div>RNs' confidence in their ability to recognize the need for anesthesiology consultation was 92% after completion of the E-learning module. The rate of DOS cancellations for patient illness decreased by 10% from 2021 and 7% from 2022. The rate of preoperative telephone call-identified patient illness cancellations increased by 10% from 2021 and 7% from 2022. Decreasing DOS cancellations by early identification of illness on the preoperative telephone call is preferred to avoid loss of operating room time, patient and family dissatisfaction with a DOS cancellation, and provide a safer time frame for surgery and anesthesia.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>RNs’ confidence in anesthesiology consultation protocol was high after completion of the E-learning module. The process improvement to the RN workflow resulted in improved perioperative efficiency as evidenced by comparison of pretest post-test data indicating a reduction in DOS patient illness cancellations and an increase in preoperative telephone call patient illness cancellations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49028,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Perianesthesia Nursing","volume":"40 2","pages":"Pages 254-259"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141876458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}