Liver Cauterization Increases the Postoperative Pain After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

Umraniye Education and Research Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Postoperative Pain; Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

Treatments: Procedure: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02852408

LAP-COL-CAUTER

Details and patient eligibility

About

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is a common accepted surgical operation with lower morbidity all over the world for gallstone. Although it has low morbidity, postoperative pain is challenging situation like every other operation.

Full description

Postoperative pain after laparoscopic cholecystectomy has a three component: parietal, visceral and referring (shoulder) pain. Although intensities of them can be various, all of them affects the total pain together. Unintentional liver cauterization during laparoscopic cholecystectomy is unwanted, but sometimes unavoidable complication/process. However its effect on postoperative pain is not studied with detail in literature.

Enrollment: 81 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status I-II
• Presumptive diagnosis of benign gallbladder disease

Exclusion criteria

• The patients with concurrent chronic disease like osteoporosis, and liver, pulmonary or renal disease, malignant disease

Trial design

81 participants in 2 patient groups

Study

Description:

liver cauterized during laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

Treatment:

Procedure: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy

Control

Description:

liver not-cauterized during laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

Treatment:

Procedure: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy