• Pain Manag Nurs · Apr 2021

    Effect of Cold Application on Chest Incision Pain Due to Deep Breathing and Cough Exercises.

    • Gülden Küçükakça Çelik and Nadiye Özer.
    • Nursing Department, Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University Semra ve Vefa Küçük Faculty of Health Sciences, Nevşehir, Turkey. Electronic address: guldenkucukakca@nevsehir.edu.tr.
    • Pain Manag Nurs. 2021 Apr 1; 22 (2): 225-231.

    BackgroundWe determined the effect of cold application after coronary artery bypass graft surgery on chest incision pain due to deep breathing and coughing exercises. Thoracotomy performed for coronary artery bypass graft surgery is one of the most painful surgical procedures. This pain prevents deep breathing and effective coughing. These problems increase the risk of morbidity in the postoperative period.AimsThis study aimed to determine the effect of cold application after CABG surgery on chest incision pain due to deep breathing and cough exercises.DesignExperimental study with control group and repeated measurements.SettingsPatients were selected through convenience sampling in the Cardiovascular Surgery Intensive Care Unit at a hospital.ParticipantsThe study was conducted with 57 patients who underwent open heart surgery (29 and 28 in the experimental and control groups, respectively).MethodsRepeated pain assessment was performed before, immediately after, and 5 min after deep breathing and coughing exercises performed in 4 periods at 2-h intervals. The first pain assessment was performed 24 h postoperatively. In the first and third assessments of the experimental group, pain was recorded before the exercise; the exercise was performed 15 min after cold gel pack application to the incision area. Pain was assessed before, immediately after, and 5 min after exercise using the Short- Form McGill Melzack Pain Questionnaire.ResultsReduction in pain severity within and between the groups was statistically significant in the first and third evaluations (p = .001).ConclusionsThe results provide evidence to support the use of cold gel pack.Copyright © 2020 American Society for Pain Management Nursing. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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