Postoperativ smärtlindring av barn 6-12 år

Abstract

The aim was to examine possible obstacles of postoperative pain alleviation of children 6-12 years old in a literature study and examine what kind of postoperative pain alleviation methods is used on children 6-12 years old. The literature study is based on eleven articles that was quality examined by the authors. In the result we present, factors that affect children’s postoperative pain alleviation in categories. The nurses participation in the child’s postoperative pain alleviation, the parent’s participation in the child’s postoperative pain alleviation, the children’s experience of postoperative pain alleviation and obstacles for optimal pain alleviation. The result of the literature study shows that it is still difficult to give enough pain alleviation when there are a large number of obstacles for postoperative pain alleviation, for instance nurses ignorance, defective prescriptions, lack of time and nurses background factors. The results also show that parents took a big part in their children’s hospital stay and pain alleviation.