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Filter by:The primary aim for this study is to determine if maternal Kangaroo Care (KC) provided during painful procedures in early life will mitigate stress release and will improve neurobehavioural outcomes in infants, decrease subsequent pain response, and enhance maternal-child interaction beyond the period of hospitalization.
The study evaluates with Artificial Neural Network (ANN) of pain scales in children. Pain of these patients' will be evaluated by many pain scales in the postoperative period.
Art therapy offers benefits and support for a range of psychological symptoms caused by cancer and its treatments, for example anxiety, stress, depression, sleeplessness, identity or end of life concerns. Persistent post treatment pain that adversely affects quality of life may be experienced by up to 50% of breast cancer patients. Factors such as depression, fear, anxiety or lack of sleep are shown to increase pain and suffering in people with cancer. A multitreatment approach treatment of cancer pain is therefore recommended. Art therapy offers an opportunity to communicate the experience of suffering in a non verbal mode and can be offered in addition to other treatment for pain. This pilot study proposes to explore the effect of art therapy on breast cancer patients' perception of pain, and its impact on daily functioning by offering four sessions of individual art therapy, spaced between one to three weeks apart.
Postoperative pain is a common phenomenon in the intensive care unit (ICU) despite the multitude of efforts dedicated to promote its effective relief. Mounting evidence shows that cardiac surgery ICU patients experience moderate to severe pain reaching proportions as high as 74% despite the use of analgesics. The highest pain intensity is experienced in the first 24 hours post surgery when patients are still in the ICU, and represents a strong predictor for the presence and severity of persistent postoperative pain. To maximize pain relief, massage has been suggested in the recent clinical practice guidelines of the Society of Critical-Care Medicine as a complementary non-pharmacological therapy in the ICU given its opioid-sparing and analgesia-enhancing potential. Some randomized controlled trials showed promising pain relief effects of massage when administered to cardiac surgery patients in acute care units, however, its effects on pain relief while patients are still in the ICU and when pain severity is highest remain unknown. This study aims to compare the effect of three 20-minute hand massage administrations within 24 hours postop on the pain intensity (primary outcome), pain unpleasantness, pain interference, muscle tension, anxiety and vital signs (blood pressure, heart and respiratory rates) of adult intensive care unit (ICU) patients post cardiac surgery versus hand holding (i.e., simple touch) and standard care. Other objectives are to describe the location and quality of pain of cardiac surgery ICU patients. Hypothesis: Patients receiving 3 hand massages within 24 hours postop will have lower pain intensity, unpleasantness and interference, muscle tension, anxiety and vital signs compared to patients receiving hand holding and to those in the standard care group.
Children in their seventh year of life (age range of 6 to 7 years) will be included in the study. All children included in the study would have to classified according to the Wright behavior classification as potentially co-operative and rated as per the Frankl behavior rating scale as positive (++) Group A and negative (-) Group B . All children included must have had no prior experience of dental anesthesia and must have at least one tooth requiring restorative procedure on either side of the maxillary arch. Intervention Description 1. Regular Anesthesia All the subjects received local anesthesia injection in maxillary arch as is commonly practiced in dental clinics. Information obtained before assignment of intervention or standard care included age, gender, type of injection given alongside the vibration device will be recorded beforehand. During the delivery of anesthesia for all the groups, anticipated and actual pain will be recorded to show the impact of anxiety on the experience of participants. During the entire process, all participants will use standard needles with confirmed specification to control for any potential confounders 2. Buzzy® The use of the external cold and a vibrating Device will follow the manufacturer's recommendations to ensure that normal clinical scenario is created.
The association between low level laser and auricular acupuncture can be an alternative when conventional drugs are contraindicated or to reduce the quantity of these postoperative medications. The objective of this study is to evaluate the efficiency of low level laser at auriculotherapy points in reducing postoperative pain in lower third molar surgery. Eighty third molars surgeries will be performed in 40 healthy patients by a split-mouth design. Immediately after surgery, each side of the patient's mouth will be randomly treated with different regimens in a double-blind design: low level laser in auricular acupuncture points or simulation of its use. This treatment will be performed at 24 and 48 hours after surgery. The primary variable is the post-operative pain. The secondary variables are trismus, edema and local temperature. They will be assessed at baseline, 24 hours, 48 hours and seven days after surgery.The blood samples for analysis of systemic inflammatory cytokines (TNF-α, interleukin 1, interleukin 6 and interleukin 8) will be assessed at baseline and 24 hours after surgery.
The purpose of this research study is to test whether researchers can reliably measure the response pupils have when an acute painful stimulus is experienced. Changes in the size of the pupil of the eye can be an indicator of brain activity in a region of the brain that is important for feeling pain.
Osteoarthritis (OA)is a painful and disabling disease, predicted to be the fourth largest cause of disability worldwide by 2020. It commonly affects the hip or knee ultimately resulting in total joint replacement. In order to assess disease progression and plan surgery, x-rays are taken as part of routine practice. However x-rays provide limited information about formation of substructures and changes occurring during progression of disease. The proposed study aims to invite patients with OA of the hip or knee to participate in detailed examinations of their pain and their painful joint through interviews, blood and urine samples taken, MRI magnetic resonance imaging)and donating their waste tissue after joint surgery (all of old joint). Informed patient consent will be sought in all cases.
Third molars extraction is a surgery frequently performed in dentistry. It is generally associated to a great postoperative distress rendered by pain, swelling and trismus, caused by surgical trauma inflammation. Several methods have been proposed to prevent these complications and to increase tissue repair quality. The use of low level laser therapy (LLLT) has been reported in dentistry since 1970. A large number of studies have reported the benefits of LLLT without collateral damage, positive effect as an anti-inflammatory agent and benefits in accelerating wound repair. However, some clinical applications strategies have been contradictories in everyday practice with results not always equivalent. Objective: To verify if a single LLLT intra or extra oral application, singly, are analogous in their effects in controlling postoperative edema, trismus, pain and wound repair in third molar surgery.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether giving lidocaine intravenously during and after a tonsillectomy surgery is effective in decreasing postoperative pain.