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Postoperative Pain Management, Taylor H. Schuler
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 …