{"id":17206,"date":"2014-10-02T10:31:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T14:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/?p=17206"},"modified":"2014-10-05T20:33:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T00:33:32","slug":"study-pain-keeps-surgery-patients-awake-extends-hospital-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2014\/10\/study-pain-keeps-surgery-patients-awake-extends-hospital-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Pain keeps surgery patients awake, extends hospital stay"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Henry Ford Health System media release:<\/p>\n

\"hospital<\/a>Pain can make it difficult for some patients to get a good night’s rest while recovering in the hospital following certain surgical procedures, often resulting in longer hospital stays<\/strong>, according to researchers at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.<\/p>\n

The study shows patients who reported poor sleep while in the hospital following total hip replacement or knee replacement surgery had higher pain scores.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Our results show that increased pain scores result in deceased sleep duration,” says study lead author Anya Miller, M.D., with the Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery at Henry Ford.<\/p>\n

“So better pain control could potentially improve sleep duration for these patients<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

Study results will be presented Wednesday at the 2014 American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) annual meeting in Orlando.<\/p>\n

The Henry Ford study sought to identify the amount of sleep disruption that occurs in the post-operative in-patient hospital setting. As previous studies on this topic have shown, patients commonly report being awoken by noise, lights or hospital staff while in the hospita<\/strong>l.<\/p>\n

That’s why for the Henry Ford study, Dr. Miller and study senior author Kathleen Yaremchuk, M.D., purposely chose a hospital floor that observes a quiet time between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. where the doors are closed and lights are dimmed.<\/p>\n

This setting enabled them to better determine the relationship between sleep disruption caused by pain.<\/p>\n

Fifty patients who had undergone total hip or knee replacement surgery were included in the study<\/strong>. These surgeries offer variables that are easier to measure in that the surgery and perioperative interventions are standardized with a pain protocol before and after surgery.<\/p>\n

The researchers looked at the patients’ total sleep time, sleep efficiency, pain scores and use of narcotics for pain.<\/p>\n

The study results reveal:<\/p>\n