Active clinical trials for "Pain, Postoperative"

Our routine practice for patients undergoing mastectomy is to include paravertebral peripheral nerve blockade for postoperative analgesia. This study investigates whether the addition of another nerve block targeting the pectoral nerves will improve that analgesia.

Breast tissue and the areas surrounding the breast contain many small to medium-sized nerves. During surgery on the breast, these nerves can be inadvertently cut or damaged. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy after surgery worsen the injury experienced by these nerves. These nerves eventually become abnormal and provide pain signals to the brain well beyond the healing period after surgery. Patients with these abnormal nerves suffer from chronic pain in the breast area that persists for several years after surgery. Chronic pain is associated with a reduced quality of life, daily functioning, psychological distress, and contributes to excessive health care expenditures. There is encouraging data suggesting that an infusion of Lidocaine during surgery and Pregabalin given around the time of surgery can prevent the development of chronic pain after breast cancer surgery. A large randomized controlled trial is needed to determine the efficacy of these two interventions on reducing chronic pain after breast cancer surgery (e.g. within 3 months of surgery). A pilot trial is first needed to determine the feasibility of undertaking such a trial.

The purpose of this trial is to investigate the effect of gabapentin on thoracic epidural analgesia following thoracotomy, including assessment of both analgesia, pain intensity, pain quality and whether or not gabapentin prevents the development of chronic pain conditions following thoracotomy. The main hypothesis is that gabapentin reduces the proportion of patients who develop a persistent pain condition following thoracotomy from 50% to 20%. Furthermore gabapentin is expected to reduce both pain intensity measured on a 11-point numerical rating scale, usage of epidural infusions of local and/or opioid analgesics, morbidity, hospital length of stay, consumption of opioid analgesics and analgesia-related side-effects. In addition gabapentin is expected to improve postoperative recovery by means of postoperative lung function, walking ability, health related quality of life and patient satisfaction

this study was designed to evaluate the effect of routine excision of the ilioinguinal nerve in an attempt to decrease the incidence of chronic inguinodynia in patients who undergo open anterior hernia mesh repair.

Preemptive analgesia is a treatment modality which starts even before the surgery, so that the central sensitization is prevented due to incisional injury at the time of surgery, so it covers the period of surgery and initial post-operative period preventing the development of central sensitization. Gabapentinoid compounds are gabapentin and pregabalin which have been extensively used in seizure disorder patient. Role of gabapentinoid compounds in the management of pain, as a pre-emptive analgesia is yet to be completely evaluated in post operative pain. Opioids have always been the preferred drugs to manage post operative pain. Since opioids have major side effects of nausea vomiting associated with its treatment their use comes with management of these side effects. Currently, diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to manage pain experienced by individuals are limited especially because there's a lack of bio-markers predictive of therapeutic outcome. In search of an objective method for pain measurement, as pain has always been subjective and it is perceived by different people differently the study will also include finding the use of COX(cyclo-oxygenase)-2 as a bio-marker of pain in post-operative patients. Although several randomized clinical trials and met-analyses have been conducted comparing the safety and efficacy of tapentadol or pregabalin in post-operative pain, there is no head to head clinical trial conducted comparing the preemptive use of two drugs for postoperative pain following total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Hence the present study is planned.

Ultrasound-guided transversus abdominis plane block is now widely used in abdominal surgery. Recently, magnesium sulphate is used as adjuvant to local anesthetics.

Adult patients with kidney stones undergoing surgical intervention with ureteroscopy with laser lithotripsy will be randomized to receive one of two different regimens of oral medications administered prior to induction of general anesthesia. Postoperatively, patients will receive automated daily text messages to assess pain and opioid consumption and subsequently determine which which treatment regimen is superior.

Breast cancer is by far the world's most common cancer among women and the most common cause of female death from cancer worldwide. It's worldwide incidence is 43.4 in 100.000 while in Egypt is 48.8 in 100.000. One of the most common surgical procedures for it is modified radical mastectomy (MRM), It is account for 31% of all breast surgery cases. Post-mastectomy pain is a big problem affecting the outcome of surgery. It was used to be managed by opioids which may lead to many side effects such as nausea, vomiting, ileus, over sedation and respiratory depression. Chronic pain syndrome (phantom breast pain, paraesthesias, and intercostobrachial neuralgia) may be developed due to inadequate pain control. So many regional analgesic techniques have been developed for effective pain control. The safest and easiest is local wound infiltration with local anesthesia but the duration of action is limited. Intercostal nerve block and interpleural block are effective, but there is a fear of pneumothorax and transient Horner's syndrome. Thoracic epidural analgesia is not preferred however it's efficacy because of possible neurological and hemodynamic side effects. The gold standard now is thoracic paravertebral block (PVB) which provide effective analgesia with minimal hemodynamic derangement but it carries a risk of pneumothorax in addition to slightly complex technique. Ultrasound-guided interfascial plane blocks such as pectoral nerve (PECS) block type 1 and 2 , serratus anterior plane block (SAPB) and erector spinae plane block (ESP) which is a recent block newly described for various surgeries for postoperative analgesia have also been reported as alternatives, with the advantages of simplicity, ease of performance and fewer complications. there is no sufficient Randomized controlled trails that assess the effectiveness and safety of erector spinae plane block ESPB in controlling post mastectomy pain This study compares the analgesic efficacy of ultrasound-guided erector spinae plane block (ESPB) and serratus anterior plane block (SAPB) in patients undergoing MRM with axillary dissection.

The aim of work is to assess and compare the analgesic efficacy of bilateral erector spinae plane block with that of bilateral transversus abdominis plane block after elective cesarean section.

In this study, the investigators measure a pupil size every 5 minutes during the operation in patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy under general anesthesia. The investigators would compare the postoperative pain intensity between the group adjusted the anesthetic drug concentration based on the changes of the pupil (Pupil group) and the group based on the changes of a surgical pleth index (SPI group).