Incidence of Chronic Pain After Thoracic Surgery

Postoperative Pain Clinical Trial

Official title:

Incidence of Chronic Pain After Thoracic Surgery

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05145153
• Other study ID #: 2012-KAEK-15/2378
• Status: Recruiting
• Start date: September 28, 2021
• Est. completion date: November 28, 2024

Study information

• Verified date: May 2024
• Source: Atatürk Chest Diseases and Chest Surgery Training and Research Hospital
• Contact: Musa Zengin, MD
• Phone: 903125677233
• Email: musazengin[@]gmail.com
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Thoracotomy and video-assisted thoracic surgery procedures are frequently performed in thoracic surgery. It is widely accepted that thoracotomy causes severe acute pain. This prolongs the discharge time of the patients, and increases the frequency of postoperative pulmonary complications and postoperative morbidity. Postoperative acute pain may cause chronic thoracotomy pain in the later period, and may adversely affect the quality of life of the patients. Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) has become the standard procedure in minor and major lung surgeries. Postoperative pain is seen in patients undergoing VATS, although it is not as severe as after thoracotomy. As in thoracotomy, this affects the postoperative pulmonary complications and the discharge time of the patients. Likewise, this pain can cause chronic pain.

In this study, it was aimed to analyze the symptoms of chronic pain in the 3rd and 6th months postoperatively in patients who had undergone thoracic surgery.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 200
• Est. completion date: November 28, 2024
• Est. primary completion date: October 8, 2024
• 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 thoracic surgery

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
• Thoracotomy
• Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery

Intervention

Procedure:
• Thoracic surgery application
The chronic pain findings of the patients who underwent thoracic surgery will be questioned at the postoperative 3rd and 6th months.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Turkey	Ankara Atatürk Chest Disease and Chest Surgery Training and Research Hospital	Kecioren	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 3th months.	Choronic 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 3th months.
Primary	Pain scores at 6th months.	Choronic 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 6th month after surgery.	Chronic pain symptoms at 6th months.
Secondary	Life quality	It will be questioned whether chronic pain affects the patient's quality of life.; has no affect; has little effect; has medium affect; has a lot of affects	The effect of chronic pain on quality of life at 3rd and 6th months.