To Relieve Pain and Anxiety - an Intervention Study in Ambulance Services

Summary

This is an intervention study focusing on both medical and nursing questions. The study is a joint project between the Ambulance services at four cities in West Sweden and Knowledge and research centre, PreHospen at University of Borås. The aim is to prove the importance of a caring relation between a patient and a caregiver in cases when a caregiver treats a patient with benzodiazepines (Midazolam). The overall aim is to show that knowledge and skills in both caring science and medicine can be applied at the same time in order to relieve pain and anxiety in acute myocardial disease. The nursing intervention involves a professional development course for caregivers. The course is expected to deepen the caregivers' knowledge about the encounter with patients as well as cardiovascular treatment. Following questions are formulated: A. What are the effects regarding relieving pain and anxiety in acute myocardial disease? B. What are the effects regarding circulatory influence? C. What are the effects regarding patients' experiences of the ambulance services? D. What are the effects regarding number of care days in relation to acute myocardial disease? E. What are the effects of patients' disease complications?

Timeline

Start

2008-06

Primary completion

2008-11

Completion

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Outcome

Missed primary endpoint

paper The pain score did not differ significantly between the two groups fifteen minutes after randomisation (median value of VAS was 4.0 in both groups). PMID 27594805 ↗

Publications

• Holmberg M, Andersson H, Winge K, Lundberg C, Karlsson T, Herlitz J, Wireklint Sundstrom B. Association between the reported intensity of an acute symptom at first prehospital assessment and the subsequent outcome: a study on patients with acute chest pain and presumed acute coronary syndrome. BMC Cardiovasc Disord. 2018 Nov 28;18(1):216. doi: 10.1186/s12872-018-0957-3.
• Wireklint Sundstrom B, Holmberg M, Herlitz J, Karlsson T, Andersson H. Possible effects of a course in cardiovascular nursing on prehospital care of patients experiencing suspected acute coronary syndrome: a cluster randomised controlled trial. BMC Nurs. 2016 Sep 2;15(1):52. doi: 10.1186/s12912-016-0175-1. eCollection 2016.

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