Active clinical trials for "Pain, Postoperative"

Comparison of the effectiveness: Quadratus lumborum (QL) block by levobupivacaine with placebo.

Aim of the study is to investigate the efficacy and safety of continuous ESP block in children under the age of 10 yrs undergoing video-assisted thoracoscopic procedures, compared to Thoracic Epidural Anesthesia (TEA).

Ingrown toenail is a very common disease in the general population that touches young adults. There are lots of treatments from local care of pedicure to surgery with matricectomy. Gold standard of symptomatic and painful ingrown toenail is the simple surgery with matricectomy and with suture or directed healing pad. For many years chemical cauterisation with phenolic acid is used, a method with very few relapses and with a more simple pad. However, because of a lack of information about this phenolic acid, the pharmaceutical laboratory withdrew it from the market. The new method to replace phenolic acid is trichloroacetic acid, used mainly in cosmetics for peeling. This method was already compared to phenolic acid and showed equal results with fewer laps of application and a low cost. The comparison between acid trichloroacetic method and the gold standard surgery was never done and will be the goal of this study. It's an open, non randomised, comparative, multicentric (2 centers) study with two groups : common surgery and surgery with chemical cauterisation For this study the investigators will compare between the two groups : gain of quality of life at one month after surgery, difference of pain between before, one week and one month after surgery, the occurrence of adverse events and number of relapses at one year.

Tramadol-paracetamol combination is studied in patients coming for elective spine surgery. The study drug is started at the day of surgery and continued maximum of five days. Before the surgery pain, use of pain medication, satisfaction for pain medication, adverse effects, resilience, depression and life satisfaction were asked. At the discharge and seven days after the surgery use of pain medication and adverse effects were asked. The patients were followed up to 28 days and one year after surgery.

Evaluation of the combination of lateral femoral cutaneous nerve "single shot" and femoral nerve "single shot" block as effective and safe alternative postoperative analgesic technique after hip replacement surgery.

Narcotics are widely used as the mainstay of pain treatment, although increasing doses are required over time as the individual becomes tolerant to their effects. This can lead to the development of dependence and abuse of these drugs. Research has identified a new way to decrease the risk of developing tolerance to narcotics, by giving at the same time a drug called rotigotine ("Neupro"). Rotigotine interferes with the body's chemical dopamine and is FDA-approved for the management of Parkinson's Disease. The purpose of this research study is to look at side effects and pain control in healthy people after removal of wisdom teeth, which usually causes pain. It is thought that by giving the study drug rotigotine with the narcotic pain reliever, there will be pain control that will extend longer than when giving the narcotic alone.

Transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block has gained popularity for the control of postoperative pain in various surgeries. Three studies showed inconsistent result on pain control after TAP block in laparoscopic cholecystectomy. The TAP technique used in these studies was classic ultrasound guided TAP block. Besides periumbilical incision, sub-xiphoid incision is usually made during laparoscopic cholecystectomy. As typical posterior TAP rarely extend above T8, the investigators undergo subcostal TAP block for this type of surgery. The investigators are going to investigate the effect of subcostal TAP on early postoperative pain after laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

This prospective randomized study aims to comparison the effectiveness of intravenous lidocaine injection and intraperitoneam lidocaine irrigation on the relief of pain in patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy. A total of 83 patients will be randomized into one of three groups (group C or group I or group P) based on Excel number generation. Patients in group C will receive normal saline intravenous injection, and patients in group I will receive an intravenous bolus injection of 1.5 mg/kg lidocaine followed by a continuous lidocaine infusion of 2 mg/kg/hr. Patients in group P will receive intraperitoneal lidocaine irrigation with 3.5 mg/kg lidocaine and normal saline 100cc. Visual analogue scale pain scores, fentanyl consumption and the frequency at which patients pushed the button (FPB) of a patient-controlled analgesia system will be recorded at 2, 4, 8, 12, 24, 48 hours postoperatively.

The primary aim of this study is to show the non-inferiority of 15 mg intraoperative dose of ketorolac as compared to the standard 30 mg ketorolac by looking at the VAS scores 4 hours after an adult spine surgery.

This prospective, double blind, placebo-controlled, parallel group study will be conducted in three study centers in Guangzhou, China. Patients aged older than 65 (ASA I-III) undergoing primary elective abdominal surgery with general anesthesia will be involved in this study. According to previous studies and our pilot trial, the sample size was estimated to be 900 subjects (each center recruiting 300 patients). All eligible patients will be randomly assigned to one of two groups: study group receiving parecoxib and control group receiving normal saline. All patients will be managed with by a standard clinical anesthesia protocol with a sevoflurane-based general anesthesia with continuous intravenous remifentanil, followed by a postoperative PCA with morphine. The emergence delirium will be evaluated by two persons blinding to medication and grouping using Riker sedation-agitation scale immediately since tracheal extubation and at specific time points until patients being discharged from PACU. Pain intensity assessments and pain relief assessments will also be conducted by the patients at given time points in 2 days postoperatively. The morphine-sparing effect, tolerability and safety of parecoxib will be investigated as well.