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Application of ice bag to reduce pain caused by sutures removal from leg vein harvest site.

Not Applicable
Conditions
Condition 1: Pain. Condition 2: Pain.
Pain, not elsewhere classified
Acute 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
Inclusion Criteria

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.

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

Study Type
interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
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
NameTimeMethod
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