Active clinical trials for "Pain, Postoperative"

This study relies on the use of a smartphone application (SOMA) that the investigators developed for tracking daily mood, pain, and activity status in acute pain, chronic pain, and healthy controls over four months.The primary goal of the study is to use fluctuations in daily self-reported symptoms to identify computational predictors of acute-chronic pain transition, pain recovery, and/or chronic pain maintenance or flareups. The general study will include anyone with current acute or chronic pain, while a smaller sub-study will use a subset of patients from the chronic pain group who have been diagnosed with chronic low back pain, failed back surgery syndrome, or fibromyalgia. These sub-study participants will first take part in one in-person EEG testing session while completing simple interoception and reinforcement learning tasks and then begin daily use of the SOMA app. Electrophysiologic and behavioral data from the EEG testing session will be used to determine predictors of treatment response in the sub-study.

A randomized clinical study evaluating the effect of buprenorphine/naloxone (bup/nx) sublingual film on postoperative pain management in opioid-tolerant patients.

Chronic pain is an extremely disabling disease. It is a major public health problem due to the lack of effective therapy. Chronic postoperative pain (CPOP) is defined by a painful symptomatology in the operated area unrelated to previous pain, present for more than 3 months, and without any link to surgical complication. The prevalence of chronicization of postoperative pain is 30% after total knee arthroplasty. Identification of clinical, biological and psychological profiles are crucial to prevent CPOP. A biologic factor, Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) produced by a variety of cells is a key regulator of neuroplasticity. BDNF is increasingly studied in the mechanisms of cerebral sensitization and pain chronicization. The role of BDNF in pain of patients remains to be explored in a prospective study. The aim of this observational study is to compare the kinetics of BDNF after total knee arthroplasty in patients with and without CPOP. Patients will be included in the study at the preanesthetic consultation. Serum BDNF levels will be measured preoperatively, 48h postoperatively, 3 and 6 months after surgery.

The suprazygomatic maxillary nerve (SZMN) block is a well-established, safe and effective regional technique for pain management following cleft palate procedures. However, it has not been studied for patients undergoing tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy (T&A) procedures. The goal of this study is to determine whether the SZMN block can be utilized to improve pain control and decrease morbidity in pediatric patients undergoing T&A. An additional goal will be to determine whether the use of dexmedetomidine as a local anesthetic adjunct can prolong the analgesic effects of the SZMN block to cover the entire duration of pain experienced.

Aim: The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of different irrigation activation systems on pain after endodontic treatment in molar teeth with irreversible pulpitis.Post-operative pain values of the participants will be recorded and evaluated with the VAS scale. Postoperative pain values of the techniques will be compared with statistical evaluation.

Postcraniotomy headache (PCH) has been underestimated for the past decades. However, current treatments for PCH are either considered insufficient or accompanied by severe side-effects. Some studies revealed that peri-incisional injection of a mixed cocktail that contains ropivacaine, epinephrine, ketorolac, and methylprednisolone showed significant efficacy in relieving postoperative pain after total hip or knee arthroplasty. Previous literature reported that the cause of PCH was related to incision of the scalp and dura, which is considered similar to causes to postoperative pain after total hip or knee arthroplasty. Thus, investigators suppose that the cocktail mixture can better relieve PCH in adults.

An investigation to find out if Newborn Infant Parasympathetic Evaluation (NIPE) index predicts postsurgical pain in children, since NIPE is thought to may be of guide to the appropriate therapy in a timely and objective manner, thereby improving patient safety, parental satisfaction, and reducing healthcare costs. We think that, validating the utility of NIPE in children under 3 years of age will allow the implementation of a novel pain assessment tool to our current practice of anesthetic care. This will improve the perioperative pain management, in particular for patients who are unable to communicate pain, with the potential to reduce detrimental consequences of postoperative pain. And also determining the relationship between the NIPE scores and validated FLACC scale for post-operative pain and PAED scale during the recovery from anesthesia and also to determine whether NIPE values at extubation correlates with the incidence of moderate and/or severe pain in PACU.

Transversus Abdominis Plane (TAP) block is a useful tool in pain management after abdominal surgery. It is a regional nerve block that targets T6-L1 thoracolumbar nerves running in the plane between internal oblique and transversus abdominis muscle. It is shown to help with post-operative pain management, reducing pain scores and narcotic pain medication use, as well as promoting earlier return to activity and recovery. TAP block became a very popular, safe, and effective therapeutic adjunct for many different abdominal surgeries ranging from obstetric procedures to general surgery procedures like colorectal surgery. Furthermore, it is used in plastic surgery procedures such as Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforator (DIEP) free flap or Transverse Rectus Abdominis Myocutaneous (TRAM) flap, as they involve extensive amount of abdominal soft tissue incision. Previous studies have shown that TAP block in these procedures significantly reduce post-op pain and narcotic pain medication use. More recently, Exparel (liposomal bupivacaine) has risen to spotlight for providing a longer, sustained local anesthesia. Various surgical disciplines have adopted this agent as part of their pain management protocol. However, there are no literatures that describe the effect of TAP block using Exparel for breast free flap population. The study hypothesize that delivering TAP block with Exparel (vs. plain bupivacaine) will provide longer regional blocking effect, hence aiding in pain control and recovery postoperatively. The investigators will be analyzing postop narcotic pain medication requirement and pain scores to look into this question.

This study is designed to investigate the effect of dronabinol on post operative pain in patients undergoing total knee replacement (for their own clinical care).

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn about the effects on postoperative analgesia of continuous lidocaine infusion via closed chest drainage tube for patients undergoing thoracoscopic partial lung resection. The main questions it aims to answer are: To explore whether continuous lidocaine pumping via closed chest drainage tube has good analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects for patients undergoing partial thoracoscopic pneumonectomy. Whether the multimodal analgesia combined with continuous lidocaine pump can reduce the postoperative application of opioids, reduce the occurrence of postoperative complications, and promote the recovery of postoperative lung function and accelerate recovery. For participants who undergoing the thoracoscopic partial lung resection with postoperative indwelling drainage tube, the epidural tube fixed in the drainage tube is connected to the completed infusion pump (marking the chest drain for analgesia). The comparison group only accept the intravenous analgesia after surgery.