Status:
UNKNOWN
Prediction of Acute Postoperative Pain and Analgesic Consumption
Lead Sponsor:
Kasper Grosen
Conditions:
Postoperative Pain
Eligibility:
MALE
15+ years
Brief Summary
Pain is an expected part of surgical recovery but effective pain management remains challenging. The high variability in postoperative pain experience and analgesic treatment response between patients...
Detailed Description
Preselected preoperative predictor variables/individual patient characteristics include the following: * Evoked brain potentials (using standard electroencephalographic brain imaging) * Capacity of d...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Elective minimally invasive surgical correction of funnel chest (pectus excavatum
- age ≥15 years.
Exclusion
- Previous thoracic surgical interventions
- Presence of diseases affecting the central and/or peripheral nervous system
- Presence of chronic pain conditions
- Inability to speak and/or understand Danish
- Inability to understand and participate in the experimental pain session
- Presence of psychiatric disorders
- History of frostbite in the non-dominant upper limb
- Presence of sores or cuts on non-dominant upper limb
- Presence of cardiovascular disease
- History of fainting and/or seizures
- Presence of fractures of the non-dominant upper limb
- Presence of Reynaud's phenomenon.
- Secondary exclusions included:
- Insensitivity to experimental cold pressor pain
- Lack of epidural catheter placement
- Re-operation
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
August 1 2014
Trial Type :
OBSERVATIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
June 1 2015
Estimated Enrollment :
40 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT02230865
Start Date
August 1 2014
End Date
June 1 2015
Last Update
June 1 2015
Active Locations (1)
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Deparment of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
Aarhus, Denmark, 8200