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dc.contributor.authorPierrakos, George-
dc.contributor.authorAthanasiadis, C.-
dc.contributor.authorPapaspyrou, S.-
dc.contributor.authorChristodoulopoulou, A.-
dc.contributor.authorKarokis, A.-
dc.contributor.authorYfantopoulos, John-
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-10T11:31:19Z-
dc.date.available2024-05-10T11:31:19Z-
dc.date.issued2001-12-24-
dc.identifierscopus-0035207875-
dc.identifier.issn1105-3992-
dc.identifier.other0035207875-
dc.identifier.urihttps://uniwacris.uniwa.gr/handle/3000/2336-
dc.description.abstractOBJECTIVE: To compare the effectiveness of the most commonly used surgical anesthesia and post-operative analgesia techniques in Greek hospitals in terms of patients' reported subjective pain assessment, measured via a visual analogue scale (VAS). METHOD: A prospective, open label, multicenter study in three major general hospitals in Athens. During a period of one calendar year ending on 25/12/1998 308 patients were studied. All patients were eligible for all anesthesia techniques and participating anesthesiologists conducted their routine anesthesia and analgesia techniques. Effectiveness was measured in terms of units of pain relief via a linear VAS. The clinical significance of these scores was first tested, based on an expert opinion of a 5% clinically meaningful difference. Next, the statistical significance of the results was tested using one-way analysis of variance tests. Sensitivity analysis was carried out with particular emphasis on the extent of clinically meaningful difference. RESULTS: Combined general-epidural, combined spinal-epidural and epidural anesthesia techniques seem to result in lower early post-operative pain levels. In terms of lower achievable absolute pain levels, combined general-epidural technique was the most preferable technique with the lowest pain levels at the first pain measurement immediately after surgery. The superiority of the epidural technique was also shown in the period of post-operative analgesia. The results revealed that the absolute pain levels in the analgesia period of the patients with continuous epidural infusion were significantly lower than those with the per os and intra-muscular technique. CONCLUSIONS: Pain measurement via a linear VAS is a reliable measure of pain which can be easily incorporated into routine pain management processes. Combined general epidural and epidural alone surgical and post-operative analgesia techniques lead to lower absolute post-operative pain levels.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.relation.ispartofΑρχεία Ελληνικής Ιατρικήςen_US
dc.subjectGeneral anesthesiaen_US
dc.subjectPainen_US
dc.subjectPost-operative analgesiaen_US
dc.subjectRegional anesthesiaen_US
dc.subjectVisual analogue scaleen_US
dc.titlePain as an outcome measure in various anesthesia and analgesia techniquesen_US
dc.title.alternativeΟ πόνος ως παράμετρος έκβασης διαφόρων αναισθησιολογικών και αναλγητικών τεχνικώνen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-0035207875-
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dc.relation.deptDepartment of Business Administrationen_US
dc.relation.facultySchool of Administrative, Economics and Social Sciencesen_US
dc.relation.volume18en_US
dc.relation.issue2en_US
dc.identifier.spage161en_US
dc.identifier.epage168en_US
dc.linkhttps://www.mednet.gr/archives/2001-2/pdf/161.pdfen_US
dc.collaborationUniversity of West Attica (UNIWA)en_US
dc.subject.fieldMedical and Health Sciencesen_US
dc.journalsOpen Accessen_US
dc.publicationPeer Revieweden_US
dc.countryGreeceen_US
local.metadatastatusverifieden_US
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item.languageiso639-1en-
item.openairetypeArticle-
item.openairecristypehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_18cf-
item.fulltextNo Fulltext-
item.grantfulltextnone-
crisitem.author.deptDepartment of Business Administration-
crisitem.author.facultySchool of Administrative, Economics and Social Sciences-
crisitem.author.parentorgSchool of Administrative, Economics and Social Sciences-
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