. 2020 Feb 7;56(2):65. doi: 10.3390/medicina56020065

Table 5.

Choice of pain management method in patients of the analyzed departments.

Treatment Methods	Department of Cardiosurgery (n = 112)	Department of General and Endocrine Surgery (n = 104)
Pre-emptive analgesia (prophylaxis of postoperative pain)	62	41
Pre-emptive analgesia (prophylaxis of postoperative pain)	55.36%	39.42%
Test χ², r(X,Y) = 0.1594, p = 0.019
Administration of drugs in single doses (on request)	80	103
Administration of drugs in single doses (on request)	71.43%	99.04%
Test χ², r(X,Y) = 0.3834, p < 0.0001
PCA	1	0
PCA	0.89%	0.00%
Test χ², r(X,Y) = 0.0657, p = 0.336
Multimodal analgesia (combination pharmacotherapy)	67	24
Multimodal analgesia (combination pharmacotherapy)	59.82%	23.08%
Test χ², r(X,Y) = 0.3718, p < 0.0001
Transdermal therapeutic system (TTS)	1	0
Transdermal therapeutic system (TTS)	0.89%	0.00%
Test χ², r(X,Y) = 0.0657, p = 0.336
Regional anesthesia techniques (epidural/subarachnoid block)	0	1
	0.00%	0.96%
Test χ², r(X,Y) = 0.0708, p = 0.300
Analgosedation	38	0
Analgosedation	33.93%	0.00%
Test χ², r(X,Y) = 0.4452, p < 0.0001