Active clinical trials for "Pain, Postoperative"

Lumbar spine pain is the leading cause of years lived with a disability and affects over 50 million individuals in the United States. Rates of spine surgeries performed to address degenerative spine conditions have increased markedly. A subset of patients experience poor pain, functional, or quality of life outcomes after surgery. This study will adapt and evaluate the feasibility and potential benefits of both a one-on-one and a group-delivered, face-to-face telehealth, mindfulness intervention for patients recovering from lumbar spine surgery. The goals of the intervention are to improve short and long-term pain management, reduce the need for long-term pain medications, and improve physical and psychological well-being after surgery. The study will result in a refined intervention manual based on feasibility, participant exit interviews and satisfaction surveys which will be piloted in a future randomized controlled trial.

Postoperative pain remains an important challenge for both patients and clinicians. Despite advances in pain management techniques, many patients continue to describe their pain as moderate to severe immediately after surgery. Poor postoperative pain control is associated with increased morbidity, functional impairment, and higher health care costs. While opioids currently represent the mainstay of treating surgical pain, their use is associated with significant side effects including respiratory depression, delayed recovery of bowel function as well as the potential for long-term use. Therefore, there is an urgent need to find new pain relievers with a safer side effect profiles. One such drug that has been receiving increasing attention is ketamine. Previous studies have focused on using intravenous ketamine postoperatively which requires a monitored setting but have ignored the oral form. By using the oral route of administration, ketamine could potentially be used by patients in a less resource-intensive manner with similar efficacy. Therefore, Investigators propose to conduct the Ketamine for Acute Postoperative Analgesia (KAPA) pilot study to examine the role of oral ketamine in improving recovery after spine surgery.

The investigators are going to study the difference in postoperative pain control after administration of oral versus intravenous formulation of acetaminophen

Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery (MITS) is a surgical method used to perform lung surgery through small incisions between the ribs and includes both Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS) and Robotic assisted Thoracic Surgery (RATS). MITS can cause a significant amount of postoperative pain and if this is not adequately controlled, it can delay the patient's recovery and it may be a precipitating factor for the development of Chronic Persistent Surgical Pain (CPSP). Regional anaesthesia is the use of nerve numbing medications known as local anaesthetics to block sensations of pain from a specific area of the body. For MITS, blocking pain arising from the chest wall/rib cage would improve the patient's recovery after the operation and overall patient satisfaction. There have been significant advancements made in thoracic (chest wall) regional anaesthesia techniques. Ultimately, this involves injecting local anaesthetics around the nerves that supply the chest wall. A single injection of these medications will only have a maximum effect for up to 12 hours and often this is considerably less. To prolong the pain free benefit, a thin tube known as a catheter will be placed so that the local anaesthesia medication can be continuously given by a specific mechanical pump designed for this purpose. This mechanical pump will be located at the patient's bedside and can precisely deliver the medication in question at a rate between 10-15 ml/hr. This infusion of local anaesthesia medication will continue for 48 hours after the operation and will be monitored by the hospital's pain team. The primary aim of this study is to compare the efficacy of two techniques for thoracic regional anaesthesia after this type of surgery. Participants will be randomly assigned (like tossing a coin) to receive either an Anaesthesiologist ultrasound guided Erector Spinae Plane Block (ESP) with catheter insertion or surgeon video-assisted Paravertebral block (PVB) with catheter insertion. Both these regional anaesthesia techniques are well established in clinical practice, but there is little evidence published comparing them for this type of surgery, in terms of quality of patient's short term (1-2 days) and longer-term (3 months) recovery.

This randomized clinical trial compares the effects of the erector spinae plane block with levobupivacaine and 0,9% saline on postoperative pain intensity, and opioid consumptions following thoracoscopic pulmonary surgery.

Erector spinae plane block (ESPB) is a relatively new plane block that was first described by Forero et al. in 2016, to manage persistent neuropathic pain following malunited rib fracture and persistent post-thoracotomy neuropathic pain.It's a relatively simple, ultrasound guided block in which the local anesthetic drugs are injected in the plane between the erector spinae muscle and the vertebral transverse process.This allows the injected local anesthetics to block the ventral and dorsal rami of the spinal nerves in the paravertebral area. The literature reveals successful case reports denoting the use of ESPB for pain control in cases of acute kidney transplant,percutaneous nephrolithomy, abdominal surgeries including laparoscopic and open nephrectomy, and nephrectomy in the pediatric population. The aim of this prospective randomized controlled study is to investigate the efficacy of ESPB for pain control in adult patients undergoing open renal surgery through a flank incision with respect to pain scores, postoperative analgesia consumption and patient satisfaction.

This study will evaluate if the use of acetaminophen round the clock (scheduled doses) will lead to less opiate use in the first week post-operative (after surgery) in sinus/septum surgery patients. Participants will be randomized like a flip of a coin to either the standard of care pain treatment of acetaminophen 325 mg as needed for pain plus opiates (acetaminophen/hydrocodone) as needed for breakthrough pain; OR to the study arm of acetaminophen 650 mg every 6 hours plus opiates (Oxycodone)as needed for breakthrough pain.

The study is a post-marketing performance and safety study, designed as a comparative, prospective, multicenter, simple-blind, randomized clinical trial. 300 subjects requiring a primary or a secondary root canal treatment will be enrolled in 2 groups (150 in each group). The aim of the study is to demonstrate the superiority of the hydrocortisone-containing root canal sealer Endomethasone N RCS, compared to the hydrocortisone-free root canal sealer Endomethasone SP RCS, with regard to reduction of the maximum post-operative spontaneous pain during the 7 days following the root canal treatment. Root canal treatment procedures will be in accordance with the allocation by randomisation of Endomethasone N RCS or Endomethasone SP RCS. The spontaneous and the Masticatory pain will be record at predefined times, a phone call will be done at 48h and a visit will be realized at day 7 (max Day 14).

The purpose of this phase 3 study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of an analgesic drug candidate, VVZ-149 Injections for treating post-operative pain following abdominoplasty.

Total knee arthroplasty is a common and effective surgical procedure for patients with end-stage knee osteoarthritis, and wound pain is still a problem for many of the patients.