Application of ice bag to reduce pain caused by sutures removal from leg vein harvest site.
- Conditions
- Condition 1: Pain. Condition 2: Pain.Pain, not elsewhere classifiedAcute pain
- Registration Number
- IRCT2014071018221N1
- Lead Sponsor
- Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 90
Consent for participation in the study; Age 30 to 70; Ability to speake Farsi; Ability to reading and writing; Consciousness should be sufficient to determine the severity of pain; Undergoing Heart surgery (coronary artery bypass); At least 5 days from the last leg incision sutures; Be at least 20 cm long incision; Not any psychiatric disorder; Ability to communicate verbally; Not use sedative and analgesics drugs; The patient has no addiction; The patient has no hearing and vision impairments; Patients without neuromuscular diseases such as Burgers, Raynaud and etc; Physician (cardiac surgeon) agrees with participate the patient.
Exclusion criteria: Use powerful hypnotics or analgesics drugs; Presence of comorbid disease that affects the patient's pain assessment (delirium, dementia or severe depression, severe impairment of vision and hearing, diabetic neuropathy); Reluctance to continue participating in the exercises; Over the past 15 days of surgery; The patient is allergic to cold; Presence of Swelling, redness or tenderness at surgical site.
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Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Pain Quality. Timepoint: Before suture removal from leg and 2 minutes after suture removal. Method of measurement: Modify Short Form McGill Pain Questionnaire.;Pain Intensity. Timepoint: Before suture removal from leg and 2 minutes after suture removal. Method of measurement: Visual Analog Scale.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method