Author(s)

Olvani Martins da Silva^1,2, Eluani Rigon², Jéssica Vanessa Corradi Dalazen², Aline Bissoloti³, Eneida Rejane Rabelo-Silva¹

¹Graduate Programa at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
²Santa Catarina State University, Chapecó, SC, Brazil.
³West Renal Clinic, Chapecó, SC, Brazil.

This study aimed to evaluate pain intensity in chronic renal patients under hemodialysis during the arteriovenous fistula cannulation. It was a cross-sectional study conducted in a hemodialysis clinic in the second semester of 2014. 70 individuals participated in the research and were assessed by the visual analogue scale. The project was approved with opinion number 453.508-2013. During cannulation, the pain reported was moderate in 58.5% of patients, intense in 30% and mild in 11.5%. There was no association between the occurrence of pain in relation to gender, shift and time of hemodialysis. The study points out to the need for pre-cannulation analgesia to improve comfort during the procedure.

Pain, Arteriovenous Fistula, Renal Dialysis

da Silva, O. , Rigon, E. , Corradi Dalazen, J. , Bissoloti, A. and Rabelo-Silva, E. (2016) Pain during Arteriovenous Fistula Cannulation in Chronic Renal Patients on Hemodialysis. Open Journal of Nursing, 6, 1028-1037. doi: 10.4236/ojn.2016.612098.