Predictors of Postoperative Pain

American University of Beirut Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Postoperative Pain

Treatments: Device: Thermal Sensory Analyzer (Senselab)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01449318

AUBMC (Other Identifier)

ANES.MA.13

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the study is to prove that pain scores generated from painful stimuli applied preoperatively may help identify the inter-individual variability in pain perception.

Full description

Psychological factors and experimental pain models such as as electrical, pressure, heat, or cold stimuli have been identified as predictors of pain intensity and opioid consumption postoperatively. This study will investigate, in addition to the factors described above, the ability of pain scores generated from painful stimuli postoperatively in predicting postoperative pain.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 35 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients undergoing abdominal hysterectomy through a pfannenstiel incision
• American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA)Class I-III

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with a history of psychiatric disease
• Diabetic or alcoholic patients who may have impaired sensation due peripheral neuropathies
• chronic opioid or nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug use
• chronic pain conditions

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 1 patient group

Patients undergoing hysterectomy

No Intervention group

Treatment:

Device: Thermal Sensory Analyzer (Senselab)