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Filter by:1. The investigators aim to examine the use of IV and oral ketorolac as an adjunctive agent to the standard of care pain protocol for postoperative pain control following arthroscopic rotator cuff repair. 2. The investigators hypothesize that the use of IV and oral ketorolac in addition to the standard of care pain protocol will reduce postoperative opioid consumption following arthroscopic rotator cuff repair.
Background: Skin grafting; both partial and complete thickness is frequently used in reconstruction of traumatic soft tissue defects. It is of great value not only for functional and aesthetic purposes in the field of plastic surgery, but also for other surgical specialties. Of all the problems in the early postoperative period, pain is considered the most important, ameliorating it can lead to significant reduction in postoperative morbidity and faster recovery of the skin donor site. Objective: To evaluate use of dexamethasone as adjuvant for bupivacaine in subcutaneous local anesthesia infiltration for skin graft donor sites, on quality of pain relief and total dose of analgesic requirements in the early hours postoperatively. Methods: 97 patients were randomly allocated to receive local bupivacaine infiltration (group LB), or dexamethasone plus bupivacaine (group LB + D) in skin donor site after skin harvesting. In addition to basic demographic data; patients were compared for Numerical Rating Scale (NRS), total dose of morphine or morphine equivalents, time to 1st breakthrough pain, and duration of surgery. Keywords: Donor site. skin graft. Breakthrough pain. Rescue analgesia. Bupivacaine
Pectoral nerve block provides a good alternative to epidural or paravertebral block with a lower risk for the patient and that is shown as an optimal anesthetic option with reduction in postoperative pain, anesthetic and opioid consumption. The main objective of this study is to evaluate the quality of the perioperative analgesia of the PECS block in patients electively escalated for the accomplishment of mastectomy under general anesthesia.
The primary purpose of COLOQUAL study is to demonstrate the superiority of analgesic effect of a bilateral quadratus lumborum block (QLB), performed at the end of laparoscopic colorectal surgery, compared to standard of care. The investigators hypothesized that a bilateral quadratus lumborum block performed at the end of laparoscopic colorectal surgery would reduce the incidence of post operative pain, time spent in recovery room, improve patient's satisfaction, and reduce hospitalisation time
Primary Aim: To examine the superior efficacy of ACT versus Attention Control (AC) on postoperative pain intensity and functioning in at-risk Veterans undergoing TKA. Changes in pain intensity and functioning from baseline to 6 weeks, 3 months and 6 months post-TKA will be compared. Level of pain intensity will be measured using the BPI Pain Severity Subscale and level of functioning will be measured using the KOOS Activities of Daily Living and Quality Of Life Subscales. Secondary Aims: A) To examine the superior efficacy of ACT versus AC on the severity of anxiety and depressive symptoms and improvements in coping skills. Changes from baseline to 6 weeks, 3 months and 6 months post-TKA will be compared. Anxiety and depressive symptoms will be measured with the Hamilton Rating Scales (Ham-A and Ham-D, respectively). Coping skills (i.e. Pain Acceptance and Engagement in Values-Based Behavior) will be measured with the Chronic Pain Acceptance Questionnaire and the Chronic Pain Values Inventory. B) To evaluate whether decreases in distress-based symptoms and increases in coping skills mediate changes in pain and functioning at 6 months in Veterans receiving ACT. Changes in anxiety symptoms, depressive symptoms, pain acceptance and engagement in values-based behavior from baseline to 6 weeks and 3 months will be used as potential mediators for changes in pain and functioning at 6 months. Exploratory Aim: Describe the pharmacological and non-pharmacological strategies Veterans are using to manage pain and their perceived helpfulness. This will provide insights into the effects of the current opioid restrictions on pain management strategies. These strategies & their perceived helpfulness will be assessed using the Pain Management Strategies Survey at baseline, 6 weeks, 3, and 6 months.
This study would like to identify the best starting dose and infusion rate for nerve blocks and nerve catheters related to the erector spinae plane block that can improve functional status and pain control on cardiac surgery patients and minimize the necessity for opioid pain control using a continuous reassessment model.
This study aims at comparing the effects of bilateral ultrasound-guided quadratus lumborum block versus lumbar epidural block on postoperative analgesia and inflammatory response following major lower abdominal cancer surgery.
To evaluate the effect of wound infiltration with 0.25% Bupivacaine in laparoscopic cholecystectomy in terms of pain severity, patient satisfaction level, quality of life, hospital stay and return to job and normal activities.
Managing pain, which affects 20-50% of the population, is a major issue in daily clinical practice. Evaluation of pain intensity is essential to adapt treatment but as it mainly relies on self-report, this assessment is difficult or impossible in non-communicating patients. In these cases, pain can only be evaluated by medical staff by the observation of pain-related characteristics like facial expression of pain (FEP). However, recognition of FEP is subjective, time-consuming and subject to multiple biases frequently leading to underestimation of pain and consequently under-treatment. Some of these biases could be solved by the use of facial recognition technology, allowing objective, automated and time-saving pain assessment. DEF-I aims to address technical issues and achieve the development of facial expression recognition digital tool able to evaluate severe acute pain in clinical practice, with high validity and utility by improving the quality of the images to be analyzed, by studying larger samples of patients, data and images, in order to correlate more efficiently the pain intensity felt by a patient with the expression of his face. The main objective of this study is to verify whether it is possible to quantitatively correlate the intensity of acute postoperative pain felt by a patient with his facial expression. The secondary objective is to define a reliable computer algorithm that qualitatively correlates the type of acute postoperative pain experienced by a patient with his facial expression.
The aim of the present study was to compare the effectiveness of transmuscular Quadratus Lumborum block using Bupivacaine versus Bupivacaine- Dexamethasone in providing analgesia in patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Because postoperative pain after laparoscopic surgery is complex, specialists suggest that effective analgesic treatment should be a multimodal support. Quadratus lumborum block (QLB) is a new abdominal truncal block for controlling somatic pain in both the upper and lower abdomen. Dexamethasone, through its anti-inflammatory and blocking effects on neural discharge, and nociceptor C fibers transmission could be used as a local anesthetic adjuvant.