Implementation of pain control program in a traumatology and orthopedics hospital. Case report Implementação de um programa de controle da dor em hospital de traumatologia e ortopedia. Relato de caso

ABSTRACTBACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES : Pain is one of the most frequent clinical complaint in daily, ambulatory and hospital practice. Regardless of its cause, it remains undervalued and, as a consequence, without adequate management, resulting in poor control, thus impairing a physical and social rehabilitation pro-posal. This study aimed at presenting a pain control program and at spreading the real advantages of its implementation. CASE REPORT : This is a descriptive study with experience re-port of a national reference orthopedic surgical hospital exclu-sively assisting Single Health System patients. CONCLUSION : This experience and its results encourage the maintenance of the Pain Control Policy and contribute to refer-ence to other health institutions the benefits of implementing similar programs and policies. Keywords : Fifth vital sign, Indicators, Pain control program. RESUMOJUSTIFICATIVA E OBJETIVOS : A dor e uma das mais fre-quentes queixas clinicas na pratica diaria, ambulatorial e hospi-talar. Independentemente da sua causa, permanece subvalorizada e, consequentemente, sem tratamento adequado, resultando em insucessos no seu controle, prejudicando uma proposta de re-abilitacao fisica e social. O objetivo deste estudo foi apresentar o programa de controle da dor e divulgar as reais vantagens de sua implementacao.