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"Is that my leg?" patients' experiences of being awake during regional anesthesia and surgery
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- Karlsson, Ann-Christin (author)
- Blekinge Tekniska Högskola,Linnéuniversitetet,Institutionen för hälso- och vårdvetenskap, HV,Sektionen för hälsa
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- Ekebergh, Margaretha (author)
- Linnéuniversitetet,Högskolan i Borås,Institutionen för Vårdvetenskap,School of Health and Caring Sciences, Linnæus University, Växjö; School of Health Sciences, University of Borås, Borås, Sweden,Institutionen för hälso- och vårdvetenskap, HV
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- Larsson Mauléon, Annika (author)
- Linnéuniversitetet,Institutionen för hälso- och vårdvetenskap, HV
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- Almerud Österberg, Sofia (author)
- Linnéuniversitetet,Institutionen för hälso- och vårdvetenskap, HV
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- Elsevier B.V, 2012
- 2012
- English.
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In: Journal of Perianesthesia Nursing. - : Elsevier B.V. - 1089-9472 .- 1532-8473. ; 27:3, s. 155-164
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- Most knee or hip replacement surgery is performed under regional anesthesia, when patients are awake. Previous research has primarily focused on patients' experiences during general anesthesia. The aim of this study was to uncover the meaning of being awake during regional anesthesia and surgery. Nine interviews with patients undergoing knee or hip replacement surgery comprise the data. The phenomenological analysis shows that being awake during surgery can be compared with walking a tightrope because of ambiguous feelings. Four interrelated constituents further elucidated the patients' experiences: balancing between proximity and distance in the operating theater, balancing between having control and being left out, my partly inaccessible body handled by others, and the significant role of the carer. Anesthesia providers and perioperative nurses need to understand the awake patients' intraoperative experiences to support and confirm them when they can no longer experience or have full access to their body.
Subject headings
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap -- Omvårdnad (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences -- Nursing (hsv//eng)
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Klinisk medicin -- Anestesi och intensivvård (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Clinical Medicine -- Anesthesiology and Intensive Care (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- regional anesthesia
- anesthesia care
- patient's experience
- phenomenology
- research
- Integrated Caring Science
- Integrerad vårdutveckling
- Vårdvetenskap
- Vårdvetenskap
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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