Pain During Chest Tube Withdrawal: Evaluation Using Pan Monitor (Pain Drain)

Hopital Foch

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chest Pain

Treatments: Device: Pain Monitor; Procedure: Chest drain withdrawal

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02015858

2013-A00612-43 (Other Identifier)

2013/22

Details and patient eligibility

About

Pain evaluation remains a clinical problem. Pain Monitor allows pain evaluation using the measurement of skin conductance.

Withdrawal of chest tube can be painful and the purpose of the study was to compare auto-evaluation of pain (visual analogic scale) and the index measured by the Pain Monitor.

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients undergoing removal of a chest tube after lung surgery,
• patients able to indicate the pain score.

Exclusion criteria

• pregnancy, lactation ,
• insulin-dependent diabetes with dysautonomia,
• central or peripheral neurological disease, agitation,
• inability to understand the protocol,
• inability to use the Pain Monitor: skin abnormalities at the site of measurement, pacemaker or implantable defibrillator, condition affecting the sympathetic nervous system, tremor of the extremities,
• contra-indication to oral morphine ,
• respiratory failure, severe hepatic insufficiency, intracranial hypertension, epilepsy associations
• recent administration of neostigmine or of atropine.

Trial design

100 participants in 2 patient groups

Epidural analgesia

Description:

Postoperative patients with epidural analgesia

Treatment:

Procedure: Chest drain withdrawal

Device: Pain Monitor

Oral analgesics

Description:

Postoperative patients with oral analgesics

Treatment:

Procedure: Chest drain withdrawal

Device: Pain Monitor