West African journal of medicine
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The prescription pattern for post-operative pain and patients' experience with pain relief were studied in 200 adult patients who had anaesthesia and surgery at the University College Hospital, Ibadan. Intermittent intramuscular injection of analgesics were prescribed for 192 patients (96%) while other routes were intravenous injections (2%), intravenous infusion (1%) and intermittent epidural injection (1%). ⋯ It also made patients cry (20%), feel depressed (23%), anxious (12.5%) and angry (14.5%). Despite the high incidence of pain and the associated disturbances, 178 patients (89%) still found overall pain relief satisfactory.
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Nine patients presenting with end stage renal disease needing haemodialysis underwent jugular venous access at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex over a two year period. There were 7 males and 2 females with age range 22-66 years. ⋯ There was only one patient with catheter thrombosis and in another catheter related infection. Haemodialysis was maintained for periods ranging from 3 to 9 months in these patients satisfactorily.