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

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Acute Clinic, Rikshospitalet - Oslo University hospital

Oslo, Norway, 0027