Active clinical trials for "Pain, Postoperative"

Patients who were operated by Department of Pediatric Surgery and who received sacral erector spinae plane blocks as a part of postoperative analgesia management will be scanned.

Postoperative pain management has an important role in anesthesia practice. In order to ensure postoperative patient comfort, postoperative rehabilitation should start early and be managed effectively1. It is known that if adequate analgesia is not provided before the patient wakes up, the severity of pain and the total opioid consumption increases. This increased opioid use causes complications such as nausea, vomiting, constipation, increased sleepiness and respiratory depression2. For this reason, the provision of adequate analgesia before the patient is awakened from general anesthesia has an important place in the process. Measurement of pain has different characteristics in patients under sedation or general anesthesia compared to conscious patients. However, since it is not possible for the patient to define pain under general anesthesia, different measurement and evaluation methods are needed. In order to monitor the intraoperative balance between nociception and antinociception, several non-invasive methods with different physiological approaches have been researched and made available for use in the last decade. The aim of these methods is individualize the intraoperative and postoperative opioid dose3. In this context, it has been suggested that the Surgical Pleth Index (SPI) method can be used in the evaluation of the analgesic component of anesthesia.

Forty-four patients aged 4-10 years who applied to Aydın Adnan Menderes University Faculty of Dentistry for dental treatment under general anesthesia will be selected and divided into 2 groups by simple randomization. The group in which a direct laryngoscope was used for intubation, which is a part of the routine general anesthesia procedure, Group DL; The group in which the video laryngoscope is used will be called Group VL. Routine general anesthesia procedure and dental treatments will not differ between groups. The necessity of external laryngeal manipulation, intubation difficulty scale (IDS) will be evaluated and the difficulty level will be determined as easy, medium and difficult. All intubations will be confirmed by auscultation as part of the routine procedure.

In this study the investigators want to asses the effect of peritonisation at c-section on postoperative vital signs which was thought to be an indirect finding secondary to increased sympathetic activity originated from pain caused by stretched peritoneum.

The aim of this study is to determine the effect of surgical priority either emergency or elective on postoperative pain in caesarean section operations. Patients whose undergo caesarean section operation are included into this study. Patients will invite to complete the Pain Catastrophizing Scale questionnaire in preoperative period. The patients will be divided into two groups in terms of applied surgical priority whether emergency or elective. After caesarean section, patient controlled analgesia is used for pain relief. And the intensity of pain will be measured by using numerical rating scale.

Spinal morphine has been widely provided for acute postoperative analgesia. However, the analgesic effect of spinal morphine usually last 12-24 hours. Therefore the investigators are interested in the pain characteristics during the 2nd postoperative day. The investigators will also explore the regimens for pain therapy in our hospital.

Caudal block is the regional anesthetic technique that is used most frequently in pediatric surgery. Opioid drugs have been added to local anesthetic solutions to prolong duration of analgesia but ideal combination were not found that has minimal adverse effect. The aim of this study was to compare the postoperative analgesic efficacy of equal concentrations of bupivacaine plus tramadol or levobupivacaine plus tramadol in pediatric patients undergoing minor urological surgery.

"This study is a single-center, randomized, open-label, 3-period, 5-treatment, 6-sequence design. A total of 54 eligible subjects will receive three total treatments; one with intravenous (IV) infusion and two with the Study System. Each subject will be randomly assigned to receive a treatment sequence consisting of Treatment A (IV fentanyl citrate), Study System Treatment B (170 mcAmp), and one of three additional Study System treatments (140 mcAmp or 200 mcAmp or 230 mcAmp) "

The experience of pain is common among hospital inpatients. Orthopaedic surgery often results in significant pain, which may last for some time. About one in eight people will experience long-term or chronic pain after surgery, which can impact on quality of life and mood. Some risk factors are known for chronic post surgical pain (CPSP) and these include patient factors, surgical factors and anaesthetic factors. We know that mood problems (anxiety and depression) increase the risk of CPSP. What is not known is how short term changes in mood are related to the experience of pain after surgery and how this impacts on CPSP. This study is designed to investigate the relationship between both short and long-term mood problems and short and long-term pain and quality of life after orthopaedic surgery. The study will provide valuable information to allow us to design a psychological intervention, which might reduce the risk of short-term post surgical pain and CPSP. This study also aims to measure a number of other variables, which may be related to CPSP including medication use, other medically unexplained symptoms and catastrophic thinking in response to pain. All patients having planned orthopaedic surgery will be asked to enter the trial. Those consenting to involvement will complete a questionnaire assessing the variables described above. They will be divided into two groups depending on whether they have significant pain on the day after their surgery. As the primary aim of the study, the rates of significant anxiety or depression will then be compared between these two groups. Secondary outcomes will be assessed by a questionnaire sent to the patients at 6 months after their surgery. Descriptive statistics will be produced for all the variables and use to model a future study, which would assess the effect of a psychological intervention on acute and chronic post surgical pain. Our hypothesis is that patients are more likely to experience acute anxiety and depression or display catastrophic thinking if they suffer significant post-surgical pain. The study is powered to reliably detect a three-fold difference in the prevalence of psychopathology between patients with and without acute pain on day 1 after elective orthopaedic surgery.

One of the main problems that faces children undergoing congenital cardiac surgery is posoperative pain management. PCAs (Patient Controlled Analgesia) and NCAs (Nurse Controlled Analgesia) are the main means of pain management here at NCH. In this study, the investigators will review the difference between different PCA and NCA modalities. Also, the investigators aim to find out if there are differences between age groups in terms of type of drug used, total drug used, side effects and length of use of the PCA or NCA.