Preventing post-anaesthetic shaking.
A number of post-operative patients experience uncontrollable shivering and shaking after regional or general anaesthesia (GA). As a recovery room nurse, I frequently observed this unpleasant phenomenon and wanted to find out more about it. The purpose of the research was twofold: to investigate the incidence of post-anaesthetic shaking in my own workplace and to develop a clinical tool for its treatment.
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Palmerston North Hospital, Intensive Care Unit.
D000765:Anesthesia, Conduction / Q000009:adverse effects; D000768:Anesthesia, General / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000451:nursing* / Q000517:prevention & control; D014202:Tremor / Q000209:etiology* / Q000451:nursing