Post-operative pain relief for patients undergoing arthroscopic shoulder surgery - an investigation of the efficacy of cryotherapy

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26670959
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Clinical nursing
• Research Institution: University of Miyazaki
• Principal Investigator: Uchida Rinko 宮崎大学, 医学部, 助教 (10336315)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: クライオセラピー / 整形外科看護 / 肩関節疾患 / 関節鏡視下手術 / 疼痛緩和

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We planned to elucidate the optimum application temperature and duration, and other factors influencing pain and distress, in patients receiving cryotherapy after arthroscopic shoulder surgery, in order to develop comfortable and effective methods of cryotherapy.
However, this study can not clarify the results in the process of securing data, because there are as few as 38 cases in the target patient (19 cases at 5 °C 16 hour group, 14 cases at 5 °C 24 hour group, 5 cases at 10 °C 16 hour group). The reason is that it is half of target patient data due to a decrease in the number of surgical operations in one year. The current analysis can only be done between some groups. In the results of 38 cases, there was no significant difference in cooling temperature, Visual Analogue Scale, and pain strength in comparison between groups. A time comparison at 5°C showed a significant difference in C-reactive protein on the first day after surgery.

Free Research Field

臨床看護学