The Influence of Preoperative Anxiety on Postoperative Pain in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery

Overview

Journal Sci Rep

Specialty Science

Date 2022 Oct 1

PMID 36183003

Authors

Mercedes Fernandez-Castro

Jose-Maria Jimenez

Belen Martin-Gil

Maria-Fe Munoz-Moreno

Ana-Belen Martin-Santos

Isaias Del Rio-Garcia

Natan Redondo-Perez

Maria Lopez

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Abstract

Patients undergoing cardiac surgery represent a challenge in terms of pain management due to multiple factors relating to the patients and to the procedure itself. Our aim was to identify the influence of levels of preoperative anxiety on postoperative pain in patients undergoing cardiac surgery and explore associations between preoperative anxiety, postoperative pain, analgesic requirements, and sex. We present a prospective cohort study of 116 patients undergoing cardiac surgery between January and April 2020. Preoperative anxiety was evaluated using the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and the amount of morphine needed to keep pain intensity below 4 on the verbal numerical rating scale was recorded for 48 h post-surgery. Given the extracorporeal circulation time, type of surgery and body surface, it was observed that every percentile increase in preoperative state anxiety led to an extra 0.068 mg of morphine being administered. For each extra year of age, the amount of morphine needed decreased by 0.26 mg, no difference was observed between men and women in terms of preoperative anxiety or postoperative analgesics requirements. It may be concluded that in cardiac surgery, postoperative analgesic requirements increased with higher levels of preoperative state anxiety and decreased for every extra year of age.

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