Rebound Pain Following Surgery With Regional Anesthesia Block

University of Alberta

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pain, Postoperative; Regional Anesthesia Morbidity

Treatments: Other: Numerical Pain Scales

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05357105

ReboundPain

Details and patient eligibility

About

For some kinds of surgery, Anesthesiologists provide nerve blocks (regional anesthesia) to reduce pain from surgery by injecting freezing medication around deep nerves with ultrasound. Nerve blocks help with pain control following surgery and reduce the amount of strong opioids needed but relatively little research has focused on the pain that occurs once the nerve block has worn off. This is called rebound or transition pain.

This research study will prospectively collect data including pain scores before, during and after nerve blocks are given for surgery. We will look at the type of nerve blocks and other analgesia medications used with the aim of quantifying rebound pain to better understand how to limit it's impact on quality postoperative pain control.

Enrollment: 119 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 18-75 years
• Receiving peripheral nerve block as part for anesthesia/analgesia as part of standard perioperative care for surgery performed at University of Alberta Hospital during a 6 month period
• Elective and emergency surgery

Exclusion criteria

• Inability to consent to participate in the study (illiteracy, <7th grade education)
• Contraindication/history of hypersensitivity to local anesthetics

Trial design

119 participants in 1 patient group

Regional Nerve Block Patients

Description:

Patients who receive regional nerve blocks as part of the anesthetic management prior to surgery.

Treatment:

Other: Numerical Pain Scales