Active clinical trials for "Pain, Postoperative"

This study is a randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled clinical trial. The main purpose of this study is to determine if postsurgical pain ratings are improved with treatment with oral Propranolol, and if the effectiveness of treatment can be modified by the presence or absence of SNPs (Single Nucleotide Polymorphism) associated with Cathecol-O-MethylTransferase (COMT) and mu-opioid receptor (MOR1) activity. The treatment period will last for three days and the observation period will last for six months. Effectiveness of treatment will be assessed by means of morphine consumption through quantitative evaluation of IV-PCA (Patient Controlled Analgesia) morphine as primary outcome measure.

Inguinal hernia is one of the most common diseases worldwide, including Thailand. Patients who underwent treatment of inguinal hernia (herniorrhaphy) found surgical site pain.There are many procedures to relieve pain after surgery. Injection of pain killer at the surgical site is a well-known method nowadays, especially with NSAIDs; Nowadays, Ketorolac is among the most-often used drug in the research. B. Ben-David's et al. published in 1995. is the study of the effects of the Ketorolac by comparing 60 mg of Ketorolac injected intramuscularly and 30 mg injections at the surgical site in 32 patients who underwent herniorrhaphy. Observing patients after surgery, postoperative pain score at 2 and 6. After 24 hours of surgery, they found that the patients who were given Ketorolac 30 mg suffered less pain than the group of patients who had Ketorolac 60 mg with statistical significant (P<0.05). The study by Connelly and colleagues, published in 1997, was a randomized double-blind study which compared the performance of relieving pain after surgery of surgical site injection of Ketorolac 60 mg and intravenous injection of Ketorolac 60 mg. In studies of 30 patients with herniorrhaphy surgery, the results showed within 24 hours of surgery, the group of patients with surgical site injections suffered less pain than the group of patients with intravenous injection (P<0.02). Besides they discovered that the time to first analgesia in the group of patients with surgical site injection was longer. (P<0.03), and the amount of analgesic requirement that the patients needed in the first 24 hours after surgery was also less in this group. (P<0.0002). According to the research above surgical site injection of Ketorolac is effective in pain relief. Bupivacaine is the most accepted drug using local infiltratively to relieve the pain especially in patients with herniorrhaphy. Previous studies of Bupivacaine found that Bupivacaine is a very effective in pain reliever, can reduce the usage of opioids, and also can reduce the recovery time in hospital. Thus, our study is to demonstrate the effectiveness of pain relief after surgery by local infiltration of Ketorolac in a patients who undergo herniorrhaphy by dividing patients into two groups and comparing between Ketorolac and Bupivacaine injection at surgical site.

This is a randomized controlled pilot study evaluating length of pain control with either liposomal bupivacaine or with bupivacaine plus decadron after PEC II injection in patients having bilateral mastectomies with immediate reconstruction.

This study aims to assess the analgesic effect of the popliteal plexus block as a supplement to a femoral triangle block in patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty

Randomised controlled prospective trial with 2 groups (active group with Lumbar plexus block (LPB)-catheter vs control group). In a randomized controlled trial, the investigators will investigate under controlled circumstances the effect of a LPB-catheter placed with ultrasound guided "Shamrock"-technique to improve postoperative pain treatment after unilateral open hip and femoral surgery in paediatric patients. The investigators will investigate the effect on opioid consumption and the reduction of opioid related side effects during the first 24 postoperative hours

This research will test whether consuming additional choline before gynecological surgery decreases postoperative pain.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate in daily clinical practice the safety and efficacy of fentanyl Iontophoretic Transdermal (through the skin) System (ITS) for management of moderate (medium level of seriousness) to severe (very serious) acute (a quick and severe) pain in participants who have undergone elective spine or orthopedic (related to bones) surgery.

Patients scheduled for primary hip replacement needs postoperative pain treatment, i.e. morphine. Morphine has side-effects: nausea, vomiting, sedation and dizziness. These side-effects are unpleasant for the patients and sometimes keeps them at bed longer time than needed. We investigate in new combinations of analgesics for postoperative pain, hoping to minimize the need for morphine.

Post-mastectomy pain affects more than half of patients undergoing the procedure and can last for years. It has been well established that development of chronic pain is related to experienced pain in the perioperative period. This study therefore aims to assess if both acute and chronic post-operative mastectomy pain can be better managed by a novel regional anesthesia nerve block known as the pectoralis block (PECs). The PECs block is easier for patients to position for placement, has less risk of harm to nearby structures, and less risk for systemic uptake of local anesthetic in comparison to the paravertebral block. The PECs block has a strong safety profile. Standard of care at University of Wisconsin (UW) hospital is to utilize regional anesthesia for post op pain management. While PVB is performed on a regular basis at UW per surgeon request, Surgeon can request for PECS block in patients where a PVB was contraindicated (ie. coagulation issues). PECS is in fact the standard of care at other hospitals. This study will assess outcomes in the post anesthetic care unit (PACU), post-operative day 1, 7 and 30.

Primary objective: The primary objective of this study is to evaluate postsurgical pain control, after presurgical iovera° treatment plus EXPAREL® and standardized multimodal therapy compared with presurgical sham iovera° treatment plus EXPAREL and standardized multimodal therapy in subjects undergoing primary unilateral total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Secondary objectives: The secondary objectives of this study are to compare postsurgical pain control or postsurgical total opioid consumption, opioid-free status, physical function, sleep quality, and safety of presurgical iovera° treatment plus EXPAREL and standardized multimodal therapy with presurgical sham iovera° treatment plus EXPAREL and standardized multimodal therapy, in subjects undergoing primary unilateral TKA