Active clinical trials for "Pain, Postoperative"

This study evaluates the comparison of the incidence of postoperative home pain after ambulatory surgery with general anesthesia between a group with pre-surgical prescription delivered during anesthesia preoperative clinic and a group with postoperative prescription.

Adequate pain therapy is important aspect of perioperative care. Sequelae of inadequate pain management are patient dissatisfaction, post-operative nausea and vomiting (PONV), inadequate nutrition, lack of mobilization, and an increased risk for the development of further complications, such as postoperative delirium (POD). The use of patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) systems, which allow patients to self-administer analgesics, has improved pain management. Conventional i.v. PCA and the non-invasive administration of sufentanil sublingual tablets (ZALVISO®) are available. The aim of this investigation is to study patient controlled analgesia systems and to examine the incidence of POD, POCD and postoperative pain.

The aim of the study is to investigate whether pre-operative dysregulated systemic lipid mediator pathways are associated with increased risk for the development of persistent post surgical pain. In addition we will investigate whether treatment with an over the counter dietary supplement containing a fractionated marine lipid derivative from anchovy and sardine oil prevents the development of chronic pain after surgery.

In this retrospective study, postoperative pain score, epidural patient controlled analgesia (Epi-PCA) related complications, the risk factors for requirement of rescue analgesics and antiemetics will be evaluated in young and elderly patients, respectively, using fentanyl and ropivacaine-based Epi-PCA during postoperative 48 hours after various surgeries.

High-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HSIL) and anal cancer are rising in incidence and at highest risk are HIV positive men who have sex with men (MSM). This pilot study assessing anal function and patient-reported outcomes before and after laser ablation of HSIL will add to the evidence that such a therapy is an acceptable and safe treatment to offer in a preventative setting.We will be recruting HIV positive and negative MSM.

Total hip replacement is one of major orthopedic surgery which result in severe postoperative pain especially at first 24 hours. Ultrasound guided regional anesthesia has become a part of multimodal analgesia.Ultrasound guided supra-inguinal fascia iliaca block is a new technique which can consistently cover femoral and lateral femoral cutaneous nerve. And with large volume (40ml), it may cover obturator nerve. This technique already proved to be useful for acute pain control in hip fracture or postoperative control in dynamic hip screw or nail insertion operation. However, it has not been compared with intrathecal morphine for total hip replacement yet.

The study aims to identify specific or potential reasons that prolong the length of hospital stay after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery lobectomy. The hypothesis is that patients who are still in hospital after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery lobectomy are associated with prolonged air leak, infection, pneumonia, atrial fibrillation or other complications or social factors.

Background and objectives: The investigators are performing this study to explore whether the presence of diabetes mellitus (DM) will affect the outcomes of infraclavicular brachial plexus blocks (ICBs) in patients undergoing elbow, forearm and hand surgery. The primary hypothesis is that the sensory block duration will be delaying in diabetic patients. Methods: Ethics committee approval has been obtained and after written informed consents, 60 patients are planning to be enrolled to the study. Diabetic patients will be included in Group DM and non-diabetics are included in Group NODM. All patients will receive ultrasound-guided ICBs with the mixture of 15 mL lidocaine 2% and 15 mL bupivacaine 0.5%. Our primary outcome is sensory block duration, and secondary outcomes are sensory and motor block onset times, motor block duration, time-to-first-pain (numeric rating scale (NRS) ≥4), postoperative NRS scores and rescue analgesic consumption (NRS) ≥4) through the postoperative first 2 days. All outcomes will be assessed by blind investigators.

The clinical study described in this Clinical Investigation Plan (CIP) will be completed in two stages, Phase I and Phase II. The results of Phase I will confirm patient use of InCaveo's EOA system with integrated mobile CBT but without tapering to improve The Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS) scores, and secondarily scores on the VNS pain scale, the Tampa Scale of Kinesiophobia (TSK), and patient satisfaction scores in the subacute period (defined as 2 weeks to 3 months post TKR). Statistically significant positive results on the Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS) will trigger phase 2. Phase 1 will also inform the detailed conditions and patient management algorithms for Phase II.

The main aim of this research is to compare the functional recovery after discharge with the preoperative physical activity as a hypothesis generating study.