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Filter by:Percutaneous electrolysis is a minimally invasive approach that consists in the application of a galvanic current through an acupuncture needle. Although several mechanisms and effects are attributed to percutaneous electrolysis, currently there are only a few publications that delve into this topic. The aim of this study is to investigate the influence of percutaneous electrolysis on the endogenous pain modulation. Four groups of intervention will be involved: no-intervention, isolated needling procedure, low intensity percutaneous electrolysis and high intensity percutaneous electrolysis. The effects on the pain modulation system will be evaluated before and immediately after the intervention, through pressure pain thresholds, conditioned pain modulation and temporal summation.
Manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) is one of the surgical treatment options for managing early pregnancy loss. When compared to traditional surgical method; MVA is safer, more cost-effective, due to its shorter hospitalisation period and not undergo the risk of general anaesthesia. The MVA procedure is performed under local anaesthesia and analgesics is given prior the procedure. However, majority of patients still complaint significant pain during the procedure. In our previous study, the investigator found women had high anxiety and stress levels when undergo miscarriage and the operation. Pain perception may further be affected by one's psychological state at the time of the procedure. Therefore reducing the patient's anxiety during the USG-MVA may further improve the patient's pain control and overall acceptance of the procedure. Music can act as a distracter and has a calming effect which turn the patient's attention away from negative stimuli. Yet, there has been no RCTs to investigate the beneficial effect of music therapy in pain control or reducing anxiety levels during USG-MVA. The investigator hypothesis the intervention of music therapy to our current pain control will reduce the pain and anxiety levels experienced by our patients during USG-MVA. Thus, there is a need to conduct an RCT to test our hypothesis. The study is conducted in an university affilated hospital for women undergo the USG-MVA procedure. The primary outcome is to evaluate in between group difference in the pain intensity after the USG-guided MVA procedure. The secondary outcome is to evaluate the difference in anxiety level . Case is randomized to music and non music group, Bluetooth headphone are provided during the procedure and case can choose their favourite songs. The outcome are measured by the self rated instrument: Visual analogue scale and the STAI trait anxiety score and the physiological measure salivary alpha amylase (sAA )score. The pain score and the anxiety level is measured pre operatively, immediate after the procedure and 2 hours post operatively. The SPSS-26 will be used for statistics analysis.
The aim of the study is to investigate the efficacy of the thoracic combined spinal epidural anesthesia in breast surgery.
This is a single-center, randomized, open-label, Phase 4 clinical trial investigating the efficacy of multiple-dose administrations of Pregabalin or Gabapentin in combination with traditional opioid pain medications to decrease the amount of opioid pain medication usage in single-system orthopedic trauma patients.
Phase 1 b placebo-controlled study in healthy volunteers to study safety, efficacy and pharmacokinetics of Topical ACD440 on normal skin, skin optimized for penetration and skin exposed to ultraviolet radiation
The purpose of the present study is to evaluate the role of peripheral afferent input for spontaneous pain in painful diabetic polyneuropathy
Metatarsalgia is a common set of symptoms in the forefoot, characterized by pain under one or more metatarsal heads. The invention of a utility model, the U202030700, designed by the study's principal investigator aims to protect the metatarsus and prevent the appearance of foot pain. The hypothesis of this research project is based on the fact that using our proposed sock with metatarsal discharge plate will bring advantages in terms of pain reduction, increased comfort, temperature reduction and change in plantar pressures received in the second and third metatarsals joint area versus the use of control socks (without discharge plate). Participants will be subjects with pain in the plantar metatarsal area that will answer few questions and a podiatric exam to determine if meet the study requirements and then a plantar pressures, foot temperature and confort wit the two kind of socks will be taken. Confort survey, thermal pictures and plantar pressures will be taken (in first term) before and after a brief walk (5 to 10 minutes) and in a second experiment (second term) after a long walk (more than 1 hour).
Pilonidal sinus disease is a common health-care problem, and surgical excision is the standard treatment modality. Controversy still exists regarding the best surgical technique for treating pilonidal disease in terms of minimizing disease recurrence and patient discomfort. In this study, the investigators compared the impact of autologous platelet-rich plasma (PRP) with that of minimally invasive techniques on pain reduction, return to daily activities, quality of life, and duration of wound healing after open excision and secondary closure.
Previously published studies show that adding intrathecal morphine to general anesthesia can reduce the postoperative pain and length of stay (LOS) in varies types of surgery. A recent meta-analysis showed that the addition of intrathecal morphine at doses below 500µg did not increase the risk of respiratory depression compared with a control group receiving intravenous opioids. Epidural analgesia is uncommonly used for robot-assisted laparoscopic procedures due to the limited surgical trauma. In addition, the risks associated with the epidural itself such as infection and spinal hematoma are thought to outweigh its possible benefits for these procedures. At Linkoping University Hospital a combination of general anesthesia and intrathecal morphine in robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy and in robotic-assisted laparoscopic cystectomy is now routinely used in order to improve postoperative recovery. However whether this approach is beneficial in other types of robotic-assisted urological procedures is unknown. Therefore the investigators aim to conduct a feasibility study for the use of intrathecal morphine combined with general anaesthesia in adult patients undergoing elective urologic laparoscopic robot-assisted surgery at Linkoping University Hospital. The investigators will include 30 patients in the study. The specific aims are to investigate the feasibility and sensitivity of Quality of Recovery 15 (QoR15), as an outcome tool measuring postoperative well-being in this patient cohort. The investigators will also investigate the feasibility of other outcome measures such as postoperative pain, post-anesthesia care unit LOS, occurrence of pruritus and hospital LOS. For planning of the timeframe of the future interventional study the investigators will use this feasibility study to examine the inclusion rate of study patients.
Background Perioperative anxiety and postoperative pain can impact surgical morbidity. We aimed to evaluate the effect of intraoperative music therapy in the reduction of immediate postoperative pain in patients undergoing gynecological oncology surgery within an Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) protocol. Secondary objectives include reduction in preoperative anxiety, postoperative pain overtime, neurohormonal response, morbidity, length of hospital stay (LOS) and patient satisfaction. Methods Prospective, randomized, double-blinded single-center study including patients undergoing surgery for ovarian, endometrial or cervical cancer over a period of 12 months. Patients were randomly assigned to receiving intraoperative music therapy (Group A) or undergoing standard management (Group B). A reduction in immediate postoperative pain was defined as a reduction in ≥2 points in the Verbal Rating Scale(VRS) at 4h postoperatively. Hemodynamic variables and blood samples were collected during the procedure for determination of cortisol levels. A scale of closed numeric questions (Likert-like) was used to assess patient satisfaction.