Key result
Women recovering from elective cardiac surgery experienced varying postoperative pain, lacked individualized self-management information, and hesitated to use pain medication.
Population
10 women 1-2 weeks after discharge from their first elective cardiac surgery
Design
Other
Follow-up
1-2 weeks after discharge
Authors
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May support gender-specific predischarge education for postoperative pain in women; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation.
Women recovering from cardiac surgery require more individualized, gender-specific predischarge education to improve postoperative pain self-management.
Leegaard et al. (2008) studied Postoperative pain after elective cardiac surgery (n=10). Postoperative pain and self-management was evaluated on Women's experiences and self-management of postoperative pain. Women recovering from elective cardiac surgery experienced varying postoperative pain, lacked individualized self-management information, and hesitated to use pain medication.
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