Incidence of Chronic Pain After Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

Atatürk Chest Diseases and Chest Surgery Training and Research Hospital

Status: Unknown

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

Treatments: Procedure: VATS application

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05187390

2012-KAEK-15/2446

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

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 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