Post-hemorrhoidectomy pain descriptors

• Published in: Revista latino-americana de enfermagem Vol. 13; no. 2; p. 203
• Main Authors: Priscilla, Hortense, Evangelista, Renata Alessandra, Sousa, Fátima Aparecida Emm Faleiros
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Brazil 01.03.2005
• Subjects: Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal - therapeutic use; Hemorrhoids - surgery; Humans; Injections, Intravenous; Ketoprofen - therapeutic use; Pain Measurement; Pain, Postoperative - diagnosis; Pain, Postoperative - drug therapy; Postoperative Care; Preoperative Care; Severity of Illness Index
• ISSN: 0104-1169
• DOI: 10.1590/s0104-11692005000200011

This study aimed at comparing scales of judgements on differences and verifying the stability and agreement of the estimation made by descriptors of post-operative pain as assessed by three different samples. Nineteen subjects who had been submitted to hemorrhoidectomy participated in the study. They were randomly divided into three groups (Group C, T and F), who received an intravenous administration of ketoprofen 100 mg, tenoxicam 40 mg or physiological serum 0.9% before the surgery. The task of each participant was to assign a score, from 1 to 7, to each descriptor of the pain felt in the first complaint after surgery. The descriptors attributed to post-operative pain were evaluated by the psychophysical method of category estimation. The obtained results were: the descriptors with higher scores for Group C were intense, unbearable and terrible; for Group T, intense, tremendous and unbearable and for Group F, unbearable, intense and terrible.