Status:
COMPLETED
Skin Conductance Fluctuations Per Sec and NRS to Monitor Pain
Lead Sponsor:
Oslo University Hospital
Collaborating Sponsors:
University of Oslo
Conditions:
Pain
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-70 years
Brief Summary
To provide a preliminary evaluation of the correlation between Numeric rating Score (NRS) and skin conductance responses per second at rest and in response to a painful stimulus. Sensitivity and speci...
Detailed Description
Cardiac surgery patients will be consented for participation in this trial. They will be asked about their pre-existing pain, anxiety about the needle-insertion and anxiety about the outcome of the op...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Age: Older than 18 years, patients scheduled for cardiac surgery.
- Patients admitted to the Cardiac Unit with cardiac disease.
- Patients able to verbally communicate pain level during or after the procedures.
- Pain medication following institutional standard care; only diazepam given before the painful procedure. During surgery, institutional standard care for sedation will be given.
Exclusion
- Administration or anesthesia or analgesia other than diazepam prior to evaluation with the PainMonitor.
- Presence of any neurological disease affecting the peripheral nerves.
- Abuse of alcohol or illicit drugs
- History of mental retardation or any mental disease
- Severe neuropathic disease
- Use of neostigmine before event 1, 2, and 3, see events below.
- Use of atropin
- Use of regional anesthesia at the extremity where the device electrodes are placed.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
May 1 2013
Trial Type :
OBSERVATIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
October 1 2013
Estimated Enrollment :
20 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01865344
Start Date
May 1 2013
End Date
October 1 2013
Last Update
December 4 2013
Active Locations (1)
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Acute Clinic, Rikshospitalet - Oslo University hospital
Oslo, Norway, 0027