Chronic Postoperative Pain
Conditions
Brief summary
To asses the precision of a score to predict chronic post surgical pain in patients undergoing inguinal hernia repair, abdominal hysterectomy, vaginal hysterectomy and thoracotomy. Prospective multicenter cohort study in 21 hospital in spain.
Interventions
Sponsors
Study design
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
* Patients with given inform consent, aged mor than 18 years, who undergo scheduled surgery of one of the following types: inguinal hernia (men), abdominal hysterectomy, vaginal hysterectomy and thoracotomy (men)
Exclusion criteria
* Patients aged less than 18 years, * Patients requiring reoperation because of surgical complications.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| GENDOLCAT scale punctuations (composed by 6 items: type of surgery, age, pain in area of surgery, pain in other localisations, physical component of SF12 and mental component of SF12). | After evaluation of chronic postsurgical pain 4th month after the end of surgery | GENDOLCAT scale punctuations (composed by 6 items: type of surgery, age, pain in area of surgery, pain in other localisations, physical component of SF12 and mental component of SF12) to identify patients that could develop chronic post surgical pain after inguinal hernia repair, abdominal hysterectomy, vaginal hysterectomy and thoracotomy. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Verbal rating scale | After evaluation of chronic postsurgical pain 4th month after the end of surgery | Prevalence of chronic post surgical pain after inguinal hernia repair, abdominal hysterectomy, vaginal hysterectomy and thoracotomy will be assessed by verbal rating scale. |
Countries
Spain