Manuel A Baarslag1, Sharan Jhingoer2, Erwin Ista2, Karel Allegaert3, Dick Tibboel2, Monique van Dijk4. 1. Intensive Care and Department of Pediatric Surgery, Erasmus University Medical Center - Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Electronic address: m.baarslag@erasmusmc.nl. 2. Intensive Care and Department of Pediatric Surgery, Erasmus University Medical Center - Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. 3. Intensive Care and Department of Pediatric Surgery, Erasmus University Medical Center - Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Development and Regeneration, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. 4. Intensive Care and Department of Pediatric Surgery, Erasmus University Medical Center - Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Erasmus University Medical Center - Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Adequate analgesia and sedation is crucial in critical care. There is little knowledge on the extent of painful and stressful procedures on children admitted to a paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and its analgesic and/or sedative management. OBJECTIVE: The primary objective was to determine the number of painful and stressful procedures per patient per day in our PICU patients, including the numbers of attempts. A secondary objective was to map PICU nurses' perceptions of the painfulness of the included procedures. METHODS: A prospective, single-centre observational cohort study in a tertiary PICU. All patients admitted to the PICU over a 3-month period were eligible. Readmissions, polysomnography patients, and patients without any data have been excluded. The number of painful and stressful procedures was collected daily, and use of analgesics and sedatives was assessed and recorded daily. Twenty-five randomly assigned nurses rated the painfulness of procedures based on their personal experience using a numeric rating scale from 0 to 10. RESULTS: In a 3-month period, a total of 229 patients were included, accounting for 855 patient days. The median number of painful and stressful procedures per patient per day was 11 (interquartile range=5-23). Endotracheal suctioning was the most frequent procedure (45%), followed by oral and nasal suctioning. Arterial and lumbar puncture, peripheral IV cannula insertion, and venipuncture were scored as most painful ranging from 3 to 10. Procedural analgesia or sedation was often not used during these most painful procedures. CONCLUSIONS: Mechanically ventilated patients undergo more than twice as many painful procedures than non-ventilated patients, as endotracheal suctioning accounts for almost half of all. Nurses regarded skin-breaking procedures most painful; however, these were rarely treated by procedural analgosedation and only covered in the minority of cases by adequate background analgosedation.
BACKGROUND: Adequate analgesia and sedation is crucial in critical care. There is little knowledge on the extent of painful and stressful procedures on children admitted to a paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and its analgesic and/or sedative management. OBJECTIVE: The primary objective was to determine the number of painful and stressful procedures per patient per day in our PICU patients, including the numbers of attempts. A secondary objective was to map PICU nurses' perceptions of the painfulness of the included procedures. METHODS: A prospective, single-centre observational cohort study in a tertiary PICU. All patients admitted to the PICU over a 3-month period were eligible. Readmissions, polysomnography patients, and patients without any data have been excluded. The number of painful and stressful procedures was collected daily, and use of analgesics and sedatives was assessed and recorded daily. Twenty-five randomly assigned nurses rated the painfulness of procedures based on their personal experience using a numeric rating scale from 0 to 10. RESULTS: In a 3-month period, a total of 229 patients were included, accounting for 855 patient days. The median number of painful and stressful procedures per patient per day was 11 (interquartile range=5-23). Endotracheal suctioning was the most frequent procedure (45%), followed by oral and nasal suctioning. Arterial and lumbar puncture, peripheral IV cannula insertion, and venipuncture were scored as most painful ranging from 3 to 10. Procedural analgesia or sedation was often not used during these most painful procedures. CONCLUSIONS: Mechanically ventilated patients undergo more than twice as many painful procedures than non-ventilated patients, as endotracheal suctioning accounts for almost half of all. Nurses regarded skin-breaking procedures most painful; however, these were rarely treated by procedural analgosedation and only covered in the minority of cases by adequate background analgosedation.
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