Chronic Pain After Cardiothoracic Surgery

University of Indonesia (UI)

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Thoracic; Chronic Pain Syndrome; Chronic Pain

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05702125

IndonesiaUAnes921

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a prospective cohort study to estimate prevalence of chronic pain after cardiothoracic surgery

Full description

This is a prospective cohort study of all patients undergo cardiothoracic elective surgery in Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital using general anesthesia. Patients with emergency surgery, history of psychologic and neurologic disease which cannot reliably state their pain score, cannot communicate well, and disagree to follow the research will be exempted. The pain score will be recorded one week after surgery during walk-in consultation, followed by 3 months and 6 months after surgery via telecommunication.

Enrollment: 96 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients undergo elective sternotomy and/or thoracotomy using general anesthesia
• Patients agree to follow the study

Exclusion criteria

• Patients undergo emergency sternotomy or thoracotomy
• Patients with pyschological and neurological disorder, that it is not reliable to determine the pain intensity
• Patients who cannot communicate
• Patients disagree to follow the study