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The Influence of Different Anesthesia on Acute and Chronic Postsurgical Pain After Thoracic Surgery

The Influence of Different Anesthesia and Postoperative Pain Management on Acute and Chronic Postsurgical Pain After Thoracic Surgery: a Prospective Study

Status
UNKNOWN
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Observational
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT03847363
Enrollment
600
Registered
2019-02-20
Start date
2018-04-01
Completion date
2020-07-30
Last updated
2019-02-20

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Conditions

Acute Pain, Chronic Postsurgical Pain

Brief summary

This study would compare acute and chronic postsurgical pain in patients underwent thoracic surgery with different anesthesia and analgesia methods, and explore the influencing factors.

Detailed description

Chronic postsurgical pain (CPSP) was the pain caused by the operation that exceeded the healing time of normal tissue (usually 3 months), that was, a status that the damage caused by noxious stimulus had been healed, but the pain that cannot be explained by disease and inflammation were still existed. Due to the location of the incision and the necessity of indwelling the chest tube, the thoracic lung surgery was considered to be one of the most painful surgical operations. Studies have found that the incidences of CPSP in patients with thoracotomy were 57% (95% CI, 51-64%) and 47% (95% CI, 39-56%) at postoperative 3 and 6 months, respectively. With the development of minimally invasive techniques, thoracic surgery had gradually become less traumatic, and the number of surgical incisions was gradually developed into single port.Through ages, epidural analgesia with a combination of local anesthetics and opioids had long been considered the gold standard for postoperative analgesia in thoracic surgery. However, with the development of clinical anesthetics and the widespread use of nerve block techniques, it had been found that in open radical gastrectomy, there was no significant difference in the inhibition of intraoperative stress response between dexmedetomidine combined with general anesthesia and a combined general-epidural anesthesia. So, which anesthesia and analgesia method was perfect for a specific type of surgery procedure? This study would compare acute and chronic postsurgical pain in patients underwent different thoracic surgery procedure with different anesthesia and analgesia methods, and explore the influencing factors.

Interventions

PROCEDUREepidural anesthesia

epidural anesthesia

PROCEDUREnerve block

paravertebral or serratus anterior plane block

Sponsors

Shanghai Zhongshan Hospital
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Observational model
OTHER
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 60 Years
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* ASA I-II * underwent selective thoracic surgery

Exclusion criteria

* with severe cardiac, endocrine,immunologic or haematologic diseases * medical history of chronic pain problems in chest area * medical history of pain-relief or sedative medication * not able to communicate with investigators

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
numerical rating scale of acute postsurgical painat day1 post-operationnumerical rating scale is a 11-point scale for patient self-reporting of pain, in which 0 stands for no pain and 10 stands for the most severe pain.
numerical rating scale of chronic postsurgical painat 3rd month post-operationnumerical rating scale is a 11-point scale for patient self-reporting of pain, in which 0 stands for no pain and 10 stands for the most severe pain.

Countries

China

Contacts

Primary Contactshuwei wang
veronciawang228@126.com+8613564440601

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026