Active clinical trials for "Pain, Postoperative"

The study is a national survey of pain and pain management to surgical patients in Norwegian Hospitals. Data on pain management are gathered from patient records and data on pain and patient satisfaction are gathered as patients' self report.

Describe and characterizes laparoscopic postherniotomy patients with persistent moderate/severe pain affecting every day activities - including detailed quantitative sensory assessment

Fentanyl is a widely used opioid analgesic. There are big interindividual variabilities in dose requirements of fentanyl for postoperative pain control. This study aims to reveal the genetic factors affecting the variable requirements of fentanyl during postoperative period.

Postoperative pain remains relatively high within 48h for Chinese patients who receive video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery. Different patients experience different pain intensity. This suggests that there may be genetic variants that make some patients susceptible to analgesic failure. Using blood samples from patients, the investigators are going to analyze the relationship between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in genes that are known to be involved in analgesic failure.

The investigators reviewed retrospectively the patients that had received septorhinoplasty(SRP). 42 patients were included in the study. Demographic, clinical, surgical, and follow-up data were collected from clinical case notes. The patients that had received sphenopalatine ganglion block(SPGB) before the surgery included in the Block group (n:20) and the patients that had not received SPBG before the surgery included in the Control group (n:22). The postoperative pain(POP) scores, the amount of postoperative rescue analgesics that was used, and the postoperative nausea and vomiting(PONV) scores in the first 24 hours and, mean arterial pressure (MAP), the dose of Remifentanil that was used during the operation were compared between the groups.

The Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS) is a psychometric tool to identify PC. A positive correlation between PCS scores and various pain outcomes has been reported in acute and chronic pain settings. Preoperative catastrophizing is associated with an increased intensity of postoperative pain and more analgesic consumption. Likewise, a recent meta-analysis revealed that PC is a strong predictor of persistent postsurgical pain. The Nepali version of PCS has been validated recently in patients with chronic pain. However, it has not been used in patients with acute pain. Therefore, our aim is to assess the relationship between preoperative Nepali PCS (N-PCS) scores and postoperative pain intensity and total opioid consumption in patients with musculoskeletal trauma planned for surgery.

PROMPT aims at improving management of acute and chronic pain by identifying a core set of PROMs (patient reported outcome measures) that are predictive indicators of treatment success in clinical practice and controlled trials. These will not only address pain intensities as well as the functional consequences of pain for individuals but also identify patients at risk of experiencing chronification of acute post-operative pain. Results will help health care professionals to individualize pain management, and thus improve the quality of life of pain patients.

It has been demonstrated that infants and children experience pain in a similar manner to adults, however it used to be undertreated when compared to adult. Perfusion Index (PI) derived from pulse plethysmography waveform, represents a ratio of pulsatile signal (during arterial inflow) to non-pulsatile signal. PI can represent the peripheral perfusion dynamics due to change of peripheral vasomotor tone. Low PI values suggest peripheral vasoconstriction and high PI values suggest peripheral vasodilation. The sympathetic nervous system is inherently involved in the pathophysiological responses evoked by painful stimulation. In the current study, investigators hypothesise that the PI could be a good objective tool for assessment of postoperative pain in children undergoing adenotonsillectomy.

Knee Osteoarthritis affects one third of the population over 65 years old. Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) has become one of the most frequent surgical procedures in the world. During the last years it went from being a long hospital stay surgery to a fast track procedure. Currently models employ high volume local infiltration techniques (LIA). The genicular nerve block (GNB) appears as alternative in this patients. The objective of this study is to evaluate the analgesic results of genicular nerve block after TKA in a small cohort of patients. 35 patients scheduled for TKA underwent to GNB were included. Pain measurement.

Ultrasound-guided SAPB is a facial plane block which maintained analgesia with blockade of lateral branches of intercostal nerves at above or below serratus plane muscle. There are few cases and studies in the literature reporting successful analgesia provided by SAPB in VATS operations. The serratus plane block is used in our clinic for postoperative analgesia in VATS operations. The aim of this study was to evaluate the postoperative pain scores and use of analgesia in patients performed with the serratus plane block in VATS operations in a 1-year period.