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James Madison University

Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019

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Postoperative Pain Management, Taylor H. Schuler May 2015

Postoperative Pain Management, Taylor H. Schuler

Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019

This literature review examined two pharmacological forms of postoperative pain

management and one nonpharmacological intervention to help reduce pain (See

Appendix A). Sources were gathered from the nursing research databases of

Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) and PubMed.

Articles and studies between 2004 and 2015 were analyzed to write the review. The

focus was to look at postoperative patients and determine if epidural or patient

controlled analgesia (PCA) provided the same satisfaction for individuals who

underwent surgery. In addition, music therapy was researched to explore the effects

of listening to a pleasurable sound and how it …