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Filter by:This study compares the efficacy of Dexmedetomidine as an adjuvant to Bupivacaine in Ultrasound Guided Transversus Abdominis Plane Block versus Caudal Block for post-operative analgesia in children undergoing congenital inguinal hernia repair especially to provide prolonged post-operative analgesia and decrease opioid consumption.
Ingrown toenail is a very common disease in the general population that touches young adults. There are lots of treatments from local care of pedicure to surgery with matricectomy. Gold standard of symptomatic and painful ingrown toenail is the simple surgery with matricectomy and with suture or directed healing pad. For many years chemical cauterisation with phenolic acid is used, a method with very few relapses and with a more simple pad. However, because of a lack of information about this phenolic acid, the pharmaceutical laboratory withdrew it from the market. The new method to replace phenolic acid is trichloroacetic acid, used mainly in cosmetics for peeling. This method was already compared to phenolic acid and showed equal results with fewer laps of application and a low cost. The comparison between acid trichloroacetic method and the gold standard surgery was never done and will be the goal of this study. It's an open, non randomised, comparative, multicentric (2 centers) study with two groups : common surgery and surgery with chemical cauterisation For this study the investigators will compare between the two groups : gain of quality of life at one month after surgery, difference of pain between before, one week and one month after surgery, the occurrence of adverse events and number of relapses at one year.
Proper management of postoperative pain is an ongoing medical challenge. Inadequate treatment of pain is associated with significantly worse patient outcomes. However, as pain is a subjective experience accurate assessment is difficult. Commonly used methods for pain assessment include the use of self-reports from patients, or observers assessments. However, both techniques are subjective to bias. Therefore, automatic assessment of pain based on objective data would enable individualized patient care, optimize provided anesthesia treatment and analgesic regimes. While research has shown that facial expressions are valid indicators of pain levels, to date research has yet to yield a reliable clinical tool which can be easily implemented in clinical practice. In this pilot study we intend to assess the feasibility, of facial expression analysis by using machine learning models of artificial intelligence (AI) to accurately predict pain levels of patients experienced in the immediate post operative period. This pilot trial will take place in two stages: First stage will include development of an AI algorithm that correlates facial recognition with pain levels. Second stage will include validation of the algorithm by comparison of to standard pain assessment modalities. In the first stage each assessment of facial expressions will be filmed in a 30 second segment and will be followed by an immediate pain assessment using two modalities, first will be pain score assessed by an anesthesiologist attending the patient at that moment, second will be VAS assessment by the participant patient. Three objective parameters: heart rate, blood pressure and respiratory rate will be recorded simultaneously from the automated record keeping system used in every patient in the recovery room (post anesthesia care unit-PACU). These assessments will take place at different time intervals according to the investigator's decision, throughout the participant's staying in the post anesthesia care unit. After completion of the first stage, the second stage of the study will be done in the same manner as described above regarding patients enrollment. Pain assessment will be done by VAS and physician assessment as described above but this time will be correlated with pain assessment by the algorithm developed in the first stage of the study.
Patients who undergo cardiothoracic surgery often experience pain and anxiety around the time of surgery. Currently, treatments for pain and anxiety around the time of surgery include opioids and benzodiazepines, which can have severe side effects and can be ineffective. Interventions combining virtual reality with olfactory stimuli are a promising alternative to opioids and benzodiazepines in the treatment of pain and anxiety around the time of surgery. The aim of this study is to evaluate the feasibility of a virtual reality and olfactory stimuli multimodal intervention in patients undergoing cardiothoracic surgery. In addition, the investigators will evaluate the preliminary effects of the VR/OS intervention on patient pain and anxiety before and after cardiothoracic surgery. Patients who meet study inclusion criteria and are undergoing cardiothoracic surgery may participate in this study. Patients have an equal being assigned to undergo the virtual reality and olfactory stimuli intervention or continue getting usual medical care with their doctor. If the patient is assigned to receive the virtual reality and olfactory stimuli intervention, the first therapy session will take place approximately two to four weeks before surgery. This will involve wearing a virtual reality headset and scented necklace for approximately 10 minutes. The second session will occur 90 minutes before the surgery. Additionally, for each day the patient recovers in the hospital after surgery, the patient will receive one session in the afternoon. During the patient's in-hospital recovery at night, they will receive lavender scented therapy.
the aim of our study is to investigate if stimulation of the P6, LI4 and LI11 acupuncture points via laser acupuncture prevents sore throat caused by the classic laryngeal mask.
An investigation to find out if Newborn Infant Parasympathetic Evaluation (NIPE) index predicts postsurgical pain in children, since NIPE is thought to may be of guide to the appropriate therapy in a timely and objective manner, thereby improving patient safety, parental satisfaction, and reducing healthcare costs. We think that, validating the utility of NIPE in children under 3 years of age will allow the implementation of a novel pain assessment tool to our current practice of anesthetic care. This will improve the perioperative pain management, in particular for patients who are unable to communicate pain, with the potential to reduce detrimental consequences of postoperative pain. And also determining the relationship between the NIPE scores and validated FLACC scale for post-operative pain and PAED scale during the recovery from anesthesia and also to determine whether NIPE values at extubation correlates with the incidence of moderate and/or severe pain in PACU.
- Although bariatric surgery is mainly performed laparoscopically, analgesic optimization is still essential to reduce complications and to improve the patients' comfort. In laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, the intraoperative peritoneal instillation of bupivacaine hydrochloride (30 ml, 0.25%) was known to be safe and effective in reducing postoperative pain, nausea, and vomiting. - Furthermore, usage of ketamine both as a pre and post-operative pain management is well established. Ketamine can be used solely or in combination with other co-adjuvant drugs, increasing their efficacy. Many therapeutic properties of ketamine have been attributed to its antagonism mechanism to N-Methyl-D-aspartate receptors.
The purpose of this study is to determine if ultrasound-guided bilateral pectointercostal fascial plane blocks with bilateral rectus sheath blocks block decrease pain scores, decrease opioid consumption, improve respiratory function, and improve quality of recovery in patients recovering from elective cardiac surgery involving primary median sternotomy and mediastinal chest tubes in comparison to pectointercostal fascial plane blocks alone.
The main aim of this study is to compare the effectiveness of three alternative techniques (continuous Erectus Spinae Plane Block : c-ESPB; continuous Serratus Anterior Plane Block : c-SAPB; and Intercostal Nerve Block: ICNB) in reducing the severity of early postoperative pain after Uniportal-VATS lung resections. Primary outcomes will be opioid and other analgesic drugs consumption in the 72 hours after surgery, and static and dynamic pain scores, measured by the visual analog scale (VAS), at 6 pre-established time-points during the first 48 hours postoperatively. Further outcomes will be incidence of pulmonary and cardiac complications until patient's discharging, pain when removing drains, presence/absence of chronic neuropathic pain (12 weeks after surgery).
The aim of the trial is to study the efficacy of continuous bilateral Erector Spinae Plane Block (ESPB) in managing perioperative pain in patients who undergo elective laparoscopic colectomy.