Incidence of Chronic Pain After Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

Postoperative Pain Clinical Trial

Official title:

Incidence of Chronic Pain After Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05187390
• Other study ID #: 2012-KAEK-15/2446
• Status: Recruiting
• Start date: December 14, 2021
• Est. completion date: July 14, 2022

Study information

• Verified date: December 2021
• Source: Atatürk Chest Diseases and Chest Surgery Training and Research Hospital
• Contact: Oya Kaybal, MD
• Phone: 00905438760088
• Email: kaybaloya[@]gmail.com
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) is frequently performed in thoracic surgery. It is widely accepted that VATS causes acute pain. Many factors such as postoperative analgesia treatment plan, operation time, number of chest tubes, and duration of chest tube stay can affect acute pain. This acute pain prolongs the discharge time of the patients and increases the frequency of postoperative pulmonary complications and postoperative morbidity. Postoperative acute pain may cause chronic pain in the later period, and may adversely affect the quality of life of the patients.

This study, it was aimed to analyze the symptoms of chronic pain in the 1st and 3rd months postoperatively in patients who had undergone VATS.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 100
• Est. completion date: July 14, 2022
• Est. primary completion date: June 14, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 65 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age between 18 and 65 years

• American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status I-II-III

• Body mass index between 18-35 kg/m2

• Patients undergoing elective VATS

Exclusion Criteria:

• Advanced cancer

• History of chronic analgesic therapy

• Patients with previous thoracic surgery

• Patients who were operated under emergency conditions

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Acute Pain
• Chronic Pain
• Pain, Postoperative
• Postoperative Pain

Intervention

Procedure:
• VATS application
The chronic pain findings of the patients who underwent VATS will be questioned at the postoperative 1st and 3rd months.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Turkey	Ankara Atatürk Chest Disease and Chest Surgery Training and Research Hospital	Keçiören	Ankara

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Atatürk Chest Diseases and Chest Surgery Training and Research Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Turkey, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Pain scores at 1st months.	Chronic pain symptoms will be assessed using the visual analog scale on a scale from 0 (no pain) to 10 (worst pain). Neuropathic pain symptoms (Burning, stabbing, electric shock-like pain, tingling, numbness, pins, and needles feeling, hyperalgesia, allodynia, and hypoesthesia) will also be asked to the patients in the 1st month after surgery.	Chronic pain symptoms at 1st months
Primary	Pain scores at 3rd months	Chronic pain symptoms will be assessed using the visual analog scale on a scale from 0 (no pain) to 10 (worst pain). Neuropathic pain symptoms (Burning, stabbing, electric shock-like pain, tingling, numbness, pins, and needles feeling, hyperalgesia, allodynia, and hypoesthesia) will also be asked to the patients in the 3rd month after surgery.	Chronic pain symptoms at 3rd months