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. 2017 Mar 29:10:775-781.
doi: 10.2147/JPR.S118047. eCollection 2017.

Factors affecting patients' comfort during fiberoptic bronchoscopy and endobronchial ultrasound

Fatma Yıldırım  1 , Şevket Özkaya  2 , Ahmet Selim Yurdakul  1
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Factors affecting patients' comfort during fiberoptic bronchoscopy and endobronchial ultrasound

Fatma Yıldırım et al. J Pain Res. .

Abstract

Objective: This study investigated the factors that can affect the comfort of patients who underwent diagnostic fiberoptic bronchoscopy (FOB) and diagnostic endobronchial ultrasonography (EBUS) for the first time and the effect of the patients' anxiety level on their comfort during the procedure.

Materials and methods: We recorded the demographics of the patients, the medications they used previously, the anesthesia applied during the procedure, the experience of the operator, the insertion technique of the bronchoscope, the types of the bronchoscopic interventions during the procedure, the duration of the procedure, and the anxiety levels of the patients before the session. Patients' discomfort level before and after the procedure and anxiety levels before the procedure were evaluated using a visual analog scale (VAS), and willingness for repeating FOB and EBUS was assessed using a questionnaire.

Results: We found that longer examination time, higher anxiety level before the procedure, the nasal insertion of bronchoscope, and higher number of interventions are related to the increased discomfort during FOB and EBUS. Patients' willingness for repeating FOB and EBUS increased as the level of discomfort decreased during the procedure.

Conclusion: The patient's anxiety level should be determined using a questionnaire before the FOB and EBUS procedures, and the operator should adjust their procedure according to the patients' anxiety level.

Keywords: endobronchial ultrasound; fiberoptic bronchoscopy; patient anxiety; patient comfort; patient willingness; preprocedure questionnaire.

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Disclosure The authors report no conflicts of interest in this work.

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