Comparison of Postoperative Pain Between Patients Received Primary and Repeated Caesarean Section

Army Medical University of People's Liberation Army

Status: Completed

Conditions: Caesarean Section

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03009955

Postoperative pain

Details and patient eligibility

About

To everyone knows, more and more patients received repeated caesarean section in China. However, at present it is not known what is it like about their postoperative pain intensity, and is it different from those patients who received primary caesarean section. Thus through postoperative follow-up, the current study aimed to investigate and compare the postoperative pain between patients received primary and repeated caesarean section.

Full description

According to whether or not to receive repeated caesarean patients were grouped into group P or group R. For all maternal,standardized epidural anesthesia and caesarean section were performed. Then the pain VAS scores and Ramsay scores at 4h, 8h, 12h, 24h and 48h after the surgery were recorded. And sleep quality at 1 day and 2 day after the surgery were recorded. In addition, pain situation at 1 week and 4 weeks after the surgery was followed up.

Enrollment: 168 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 20 to 40 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• single birth
• full-term pregnancy
• in accordance with cesarean section indications
• transverse incision of lower uterine segment

Exclusion criteria

• history of dementia, psychiatric illness or any diseases of central nervous system
• accompanying liver or kidney function deficiency
• alcoholism and drug dependence
• patients previously included in this study or currently included in the other clinical study
• patients who have second surgery during the study period
• difficult to follow up or patients with poor compliance
• history of chronic pain

Trial design

168 participants in 2 patient groups

Group P

Description:

patients who received primary caesarean section

Group R

Description:

patients who received repeated caesarean section