The pain pump, or analgesic pump, is a fluid delivery device that maintains a constant concentration of medication in the bloodstream, helping to achieve better analgesia with less medication.
Patients are usually allowed to press themselves to add an additional infusion dose to the continuous infusion, so treatment is more individualized, in line with the wide variation in pain sensation. It can be used for postoperative analgesia, cancer pain, and labor analgesia.
For a long time, people think that postoperative pain is a natural phenomenon, which is unavoidable, and they just tolerate the postoperative pain silently. In fact, pain can be controlled and can be reduced or made painless by drugs or tools.
It is believed that people who are ward nurses have often witnessed the agony of patients when they are suffering from pain. An analgesic pump is one such tool for pain control.
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Side effects of using pain pumps:
Pain pumps also have some side effects, but they vary from person to person. Some patients have poor anal defecation, which means that bowel movements are weakened (mostly abdominal surgery patients), and others have nausea and vomiting, urinary retention, scratching, low blood pressure, and respiratory depression.
These are individual phenomena, patients are different, the application of clinical phenomena are not the same, especially the application of PCA, by the patient can control the use of their own, adverse reactions have been controlled.
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