Postop Pain in the MICS Patients Versus Sternotomy Patients

Wake Forest University (WFU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Surgery; Pain, Postoperative

Treatments: Procedure: Coronary bypass surgery

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04003584

IRB file #09-17-29E

Details and patient eligibility

About

To adequately assess postoperative pain in the coronary artery bypass surgical population a multicentered retrospective chart review was carried out; the study utilized a nonexperimental comparative descriptive study design. The retrospective review was conducted over a six-month time frame, consisting of June 2017 through November 2017, at two hospitals within the same organization. The data collection process began in late December of 2017 and January of 2018. The assessment of postop pain was performed by using a standard 11-point numeric pain rating scale on post extubation day one and the day of discharge.

Enrollment: 179 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients who had an isolated coronary artery bypass surgery at Charlotte Medical Center (CMC) and CMC-Pineville
• Minimally invasive cardiac surgery
• Traditional sternotomy cardiac surgery

Exclusion criteria

• Documented history of any chronic pain syndromes requiring active treatment
• The "relative" recent requirement of narcotic analgesic use for pain relief prior to operation
• Any CABG operation that inadvertently resulted in an operative surgical complication
• Patient cases that resulted in a readmission within 30 days from surgery.

Trial design

179 participants in 2 patient groups

Minimally Invasive Cardiac Bypass patients

Treatment:

Procedure: Coronary bypass surgery

Traditional Sternotomy Cardiac Bypass patients

Treatment:

Procedure: Coronary bypass surgery