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Indian Journal of Surgical Nursing 8(3):p 69-72, Sep-Dec 2019. | DOI: DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21088/ijsn.2277.467X.8319.1
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Infrared Lamp Therapy on Episiotomy Pain and Wound Healing
Suchana Roy Bhowmik , Anjali Shukla1 , Suchana Roy Bhowmik2 , Sujata Deo3
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Indian Journal of Surgical Nursing 8(3):p 69-72, Sep-Dec 2019. | DOI: DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21088/ijsn.2277.467X.8319.1
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Anjali Shukla, Suchana Roy Bhowmik, Sujata Deo. Infrared Lamp Therapy on Episiotomy Pain and Wound Healing. Indian J Surg Nurs. 2019;8(3):69–72.
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Pregnancy is a wonderful creation with life’s greatest blessings, dreams and expectation in women’s lives. Pregnancy is a time where a mother is going through a lot of changes both physically and psychologically. During childbirth episiotomy is one of the most widely performed surgical procedure. Due to episiotomy perineal pain is a stressful factor in mothers which interferes the daily activitiesperformed across the world. Infrared lamp therapy (IFR) is one of the best therapy which enhance episiotomy wound healing and pain reduction. The study was carried out with the aim to assess the effectiveness of IFR therapy on episiotomy pain and wound healing among postnatal mothers. In this study quasi-experimental non-equivalent post-test design was applied. Purposive sampling technique was used to assign 60 postnatal mothers (30 in each study & control group) who met the inclusion criteria. The IFR therapy for 10 minutes was applied on episiotomy wound for 3 consecutive days twice a day for the study group whereas hospital routine care was given to control group. Episiotomy wound was assessed by using observational check list REEDA scale and pain level assessed by modified numeric pain rating scale once in a day for 3 consecutive days. The result shown that there was significant difference found in episiotomy pain on 2nd day (p < 0.001) and in 3rd day (p < 0.001), and on episiotomy wound healing on 2nd day (p = 0.05) and on 3rd day (p = 0.001) in between study and control group. The study concluded that, IFR therapy is an appropriate method of care which can be included in hospital routine care for better episiotomy wound healing and managing episiotomy pain level among women at puerperium period.
Keywords: Infrared Lamp Therapy; Episiotomy Wound; Episiotomy pain.
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Anjali Shukla, Suchana Roy Bhowmik, Sujata Deo. Infrared Lamp Therapy on Episiotomy Pain and Wound Healing. Indian J Surg Nurs. 2019;8(3):69–72.
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