Active clinical trials for "Pain, Postoperative"

A number of peripheral nerve blocks are routinely performed in patients who will undergo orthopedic hip surgery for pain relief. Proximal extensor group nerve (PENG) block is one such field block which is used for this purpose and could be performed both before and after the operation. When used before surgery, PENG block is reported to be beneficial in alleviating pain during positioning for spinal anesthesia. Furthermore, some studies suggest a high volume block may increase the analgesic effect of the block. In this perspective, this study aims to observe the effects of different volumes of local anesthetic (bupivacaine) at the same dose used for PENG block in hip fracture positioning for spinal anesthesia. The investigator hypothesizes that a high volume (>20ml) PENG block will reduce pain during positioning compared to a low volume PENG block.

The proposed research is an important extension of an ongoing perioperative personalized analgesia and intravenous opioid pharmacogenetic research. This research focuses on two of the most commonly used oral opioid analgesics, oxycodone, and methadone, in adults following lumbar spinal fusion and decompression surgery. Genetic signature and combinatorial pharmacogenetic approaches perform better than single-gene associations. This innovative translational research will for the first time evaluate simultaneously the effects of multiple genes and interactions on oxycodone and methadone's pharmacokinetics and optimal clinical dosing and on its safety and efficacy in the highly vulnerable pediatric population. This research's multigenetic signature findings can be easily extrapolated to adults undergoing surgery or using oxycodone and/or methadone for chronic and cancer pain and in identifying opioid abusers at risk of severe respiratory depression and death. When methadone is given in addition to oxycodone for inpatient pectus excavatum repair and idiopathic scoliosis spinal fusions according to new departmental protocols, methadone pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics will also be evaluated.

This study will be conducted at post anaesthesia care unit of Department of Anesthesiology, Aga Khan University Hospital Karachi. The aim of this study is to compare the post operative analgesia between two groups of post operative paediatric patients, Conventional group, receiving conventional analgesia and the group of patients in which distraction technique will be used. Conventional group will only receive conventional analgesia while the distraction group will receive conventional analgesia as well as distraction technique. Distraction technique that will be used is a non-pharmacological method of pain relief for post-operative paediatric patients in post anesthesia care unit. (games on tablets, listening poems, watching cartoons). Conventional analgesia is the standardise rescue analgesia of intravenous administration of analgesics in post anaesthesia care unit prescribed. The analgesia will include I/V Tramadol 0.5 to 1mg/kg and Paracetamol 10mg/kg). Our primary outcome will be pain scores using Wong-Baker FACES® pain rating scale and parent's satisfaction as secondary outcome.

The main objective of this trial is to improve the postoperative analgesia effect and prognosis of patients with ovarian cancer after laparotomy surgery. This is a randomized, double-blind, controlled trial to evaluate analgesia and patient outcomes after local peritoneal anesthesia after surgery.

Comparison between local anesthetic infiltration between the popliteal artery and the capsule of the knee (IPACK) versus adductor canal block (ACB) or sciatic nerve block (anterior approach) in combination with femoral nerve block for postoperative analgesia in major knee surgeries.

Impact of pectoral nerve block on postoperative pain and quality of recovery in patients undergoing breast cancer surgery: A prospective study

To determine how daily cannabis use affects surgical outcomes.

Evaluation of the effect of cryotherapy versus post-operative ibuprofen medication on post-operative pain in mandibular molar teeth with symptomatic irreversible pulpitis . a new technique was proposed to utilize the effect of cold saline on reducing the inflammatory process in the tissue, the so-called cryotherapy.

Being relatively new, the NOL monitor may offer interesting observations in perioperative nociception levels and appropriate analgesic consumption in diverse surgeries, including robot-assisted surgery. These observations may supplement the current efforts towards further advantages in rapid restitution. Therefore, the investigators planned a trial where intra-operative analgesics were guided using an NOL monitor to study if intra-operative NOL guidance influences peri-operative analgesic consumption, postoperative length of stay and quality of recovery of patients subjected for robot-assisted surgery.

Most of the patients undergoing laparoscopic partial/radical nephrectomy can experience moderate or severe postoperative pain, and inadequate control of this pain can cause negative consequences such as development of chronic pain, pulmonary and cardiac events, and side effects of long term opioid usage. Due to these adverse outcomes, ultrasonography-guided plane blocks can be beneficial for these patients to decrease opioid consumption. In this study, we aim to compare ultrasonography-guided plane blocks: Paravertebral block and subcostal transversus abdominis plane block and traditional method: patient controlled analgesia with opioids. We hypothesized that analgesic efficacy in both paravertebral and subcostal TAP blocks will have similar outcomes but better than traditional method.