Incidence of Chronic Pain After Thoracotomy

Atatürk Chest Diseases and Chest Surgery Training and Research Hospital

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Postoperative Pain; Postoperative Pain, Acute; Thoracotomy; Postoperative Pain, Chronic

Treatments: Procedure: Thoracotomy application

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05177575

2012-KAEK-15/2438

Details and patient eligibility

About

Thoracotomy is frequently performed in thoracic surgery. It is widely accepted that thoracotomy causes severe 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 thoracotomy pain in the later period, and may adversely affect the quality of life of the patients.

This study aims to analyze the symptoms of chronic pain in the 3rd and 6th months postoperatively in patients who had undergone thoracotomy.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age between 18 and 65 years
• American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status I-II-III
• Body mass index (BMI) between 18-35 kg/m2
• Patients undergoing elective thoracotomy

Exclusion criteria

• Advanced cancer
• History of chronic analgesic therapy
• Patients with previous thoracic surgery
• Patients who were operated under emergency conditions