Post Operative Pain: the Cost of Pharmacological Therapy
Keywords:
postoperative pain, costs, analgesics.Abstract
- ln spite of the importance of analgesics used for postoperative pain control, there are not enough studies to evaluate their costs. Thus the present study estimates the direct cost s of analgesic therapy used in the postoperative period (PO) in 166 patients who have undergone hemorrhoidectomy in a priva te hosp ita l. The categories of costs utilized we re: medications, disposable material, maintenance of intravenous access and labour performed by the nursing team. The cost of the analgesic therapy was R$10 .6 49, 20 being that 6 7% was spent in the administration of medicines of the regular protocol. The average cost of therapy per patient in immediate PO was R$ 31, 80 . The category of cost - administration of medications was pointed out in PO, representing 48 .7% (immediate PO) and 48 .1 % (mediate PO) of the total cost of therapy. The knowledge of these va riab le costs introduces economic rationality among health professiona ls, not with the intention of substituting the practice of medicine but rather to integrate them.
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