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The Effect of Hand Massage on Endotracheal Suctioning Pain and Hemodynamic Parameters

Turkey (Türkiye)24 participantsStarted 2022-06-21

Plain-language summary

Endotracheal suctioning (ETS) is one of the most frequently applied care procedures in intensive care units in patients with artificial airway and mechanical ventilation. Suctioning, like all other invasive procedures, causes some complications. Various complications such as pain, hypoxemia, irregularity in blood pressure and heart rate, arrhythmia, increased respiratory frequency, and decreased respiratory depth may develop in patients. Pain is a physiological response that affects the patient's comfort and vital signs. hemodynamic parameters triggered by suctioning, as well as pain, may be positively affected by reflexology and classical hand massage.

Who can participate

Age range

18 Years

Sex

ALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * Over 18 years old * Those who agreed to participate in the study * Orally intubated, * Receiving mechanical ventilator support, * No history of chronic pain (eg arthritis) * Not addicted to alcohol and drugs * Does not have a psychological problem (such as depression, anxiety disorder), * Not using anxiolytic, antidepressant or antipsychotic medication * The sedation-analgesic levels did not change during the study, * No additional sedation-analgesic medication is applied during the massage and suctioning applications, * Riker Sedation Agitation Scale score is 2-4 points, * Having no objections to massaging their hands (not having any skin lesions, burns, pathological diseases related to muscles and bones), * Patients who need suctioning within two hours at the latest after the end of the massage will be included in the sample. Exclusion Criteria: * Being under the age of 18, * Having a Riker Sedation Agitation Scale score of 1, or 5 and above, * Changing sedation and analgesic doses during the study, * Having chronic disease pain, * Being addicted to alcohol and drugs, * Having a psychological problem and using antidepressant, anxiolytic or antipsychotic medication, * Discharged, exitus, extubated, tracheostomy or tracheostomy opened, * Having any skin lesions, burns, open wounds, pathological diseases related to muscles and bones on their hands, * Needing suctioning during the massage application, * Not needing suctioning within the first two hours …

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What they're measuring

change from baseline pain level of patients at 5 minutes both reflexology and classical hand massage group

Timeframe: just before ETS and immediately after and 5th minute after ETS

Trial details

NCT IDNCT05750524

SponsorDokuz Eylul University

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2022-07-28

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