کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
2667451 1140877 2012 10 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
“Is that My Leg?” Patients’ Experiences of Being Awake During Regional Anesthesia and Surgery
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی بیهوشی و پزشکی درد
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
“Is that My Leg?” Patients’ Experiences of Being Awake During Regional Anesthesia and Surgery
چکیده انگلیسی

Most knee or hip replacement surgery is performed under regional anesthesia, when patients are awake. Previous research has primarily focused on patients’ experiences during general anesthesia. The aim of this study was to uncover the meaning of being awake during regional anesthesia and surgery. Nine interviews with patients undergoing knee or hip replacement surgery comprise the data. The phenomenological analysis shows that being awake during surgery can be compared with walking a tightrope because of ambiguous feelings. Four interrelated constituents further elucidated the patients’ experiences: balancing between proximity and distance in the operating theater, balancing between having control and being left out, my partly inaccessible body handled by others, and the significant role of the carer. Anesthesia providers and perioperative nurses need to understand the awake patients’ intraoperative experiences to support and confirm them when they can no longer experience or have full access to their body.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing - Volume 27, Issue 3, June 2012, Pages 155–164
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