Analgesia posquirúrgica mediante catéter peridural en el Hospital José Carrasco Arteaga, enero a abril de 2015

Abstract

Background: the management of post-surgical pain is a problem we face every day in the hospital setting. The importance of adequate control resides in the emergence of new techniques and procedures where the epidural anesthesia has provided better results and fewer side effects.

The epidural block is one of the most useful and versatile means of modern anesthesiology, allows the physician to provide anesthesia and analgesia. Objective: To determine postoperative analgesia by epidural catheter at José Carrasco Arteaga Hospital of Cuenca city in the period from January to April 2015. Methodology: Descriptive quantitative research, conducted in patients undergoing surgery requiring epidural catheter for postoperative pain control in José Carrasco Arteaga Hospital. The universe is going to be all the medical records of patients admitted to surgery, who used the epidural catheter for postoperative pain control and were undergoing scheduled and emergency obstetric gynecology, orthopedics, among other surgeries. As a method we will use the observation and data collection which will be through medical records. A form is going to be use to record data. The program for analysis and tabulation will be EXCEL, it will be charts and tables that allow us to summarize the collected material and demonstrate compliance with the objectives of the investigation. Use of the Results: The purpose of our research is to describe the use of epidural catheter in controlling postoperative pain in the hospital setting.