Efficacy of a Nurse-based, Anesthesiologist-supervised Acute Pain Service for Pediatric Patients (Nurse-APS)

Mahidol University

Status and phase: Unknown; Phase 3

Conditions: Postoperative Pain; Satisfaction

Treatments: Other: model of health care service

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01325077

545/2553(EC3) (Registry Identifier)

Si 603/2010

Details and patient eligibility

About

Can a nurse-based, anesthesiologist-supervised model reduce prevalence of postoperative pain in pediatric patients?

Full description

Comparison of 2 treatment model in reducing prevalence of postoperative pain in pediatric patients:

Conventional model(C): Nurses give fixed-dose analgesic according to surgeons' prescription Study model(S): Nurses give initial-dose analgesic according to surgeons' prescription. In case of inadequate pain relief, another half of initial dose will be given twice at 15-min interval and acute pain service will be consulted if there is still pain.

Enrollment: 103 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 31 days to 15 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age up to15 years old
• Underwent surgery with moderate to severe pain

Exclusion criteria

• ENT, Eye, ambulatory surgery
• Cardiac, Neurosurgery
• Severe neurocognitive impairment
• Continuous epidural analgesia which anesthesiologists take care by themselves

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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103 participants in 1 patient group

Conventional model, Study model

Experimental group

Description:

Conventional model(C): Nurses give fixed-dose analgesic according to surgeons' prescription Study model(S): Nurses give initial-dose analgesic according to surgeons' prescription. In case of inadequate pain relief, another half of initial dose will be given twice at 15-min interval and acute pain service will be consulted if there is still pain.

Treatment:

Other: model of health care service