Pain in the room of plasters of the traumatology emergency unit

Abstract

In the emergency department the pain is the symptom more frequent than they undergo the patients, the presence of this one is considered like a useless and unnecessary suffering since it can get to control itself by means of the drug administration. The objective of this study is to know the existence and intensity the pain and if analgesia is administered in the traumatology emergency unit. It has been realised by means of a questionnaire in that picks up the variables: sex, age, diagnosis, pain and administration of analgesia. With respect to the result it exists 39,4% of fractures of radio, followed of 24,2% of fracture of metacarpianos. The pain in the room of plasters: Visual scale Analogical EVA (10) the 15,2% and EVA (7) the 21,2% of the patients. As far as the administration of analgesia to the 59,1% of the patients no was administered to him. In conclusion, the intensity of the pain that undergoes our patients during the manipulation of the fractures is because a percentage very lifted is reduced and immobilized without analgesia administration. This high prevalence of the pain puts in prohibition the welfare quality.

Keywords

• Analgesia
• Traumatology
• Quality of the health attention
• Emergency
• Inmobilization.