Pain management in siriraj hospital: Data from patients.

ABSTRACT

The objectives of the study are to evaluate the significance of pain problem in Siriraj Hospital, success rate and mothods of pain relief being given to the patients. We questioned 440 patients in whom 53.7% had pain as one of the main symptoms that brought them to the hospital and 53.3% had asked for pain relief drugs during their admission, these showed that pain is a common problem and a challenge to all doctors. By using Linear Analogue Scale we found that the success rate of pain relief were excellent 26.6%, good 25.9, bad 34.3% and there was no effect in 13.2% Factors affecting success are sites of pain, sex, age and duration after operation. 71.8% of all patients had received analgesic drug prescription but only 44.1% were recorded to have the drugs. The most commonly used drugs are paracetamol, morphine and pethidine. Oral and intramuscular routes are most common administrative routes.