Status:
COMPLETED
Acute Postoperative Pain Prevalence and Intensity in the First 72 Hours
Lead Sponsor:
Wollo University
Conditions:
Post Operative Pain
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Brief Summary
Postoperative pain is poorly studied in developing countries. Severe pain after surgery remains a major problem, occurring in 50% to 70% of the patients. Differences exist across countries. Despite nu...
Detailed Description
Postoperative pain management remains one of the major challenges in the care of surgical patients in many parts of the world. Despite improved care, studies show that postoperative pain continues to ...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Age ≥18 years old
- Able to provide informed consent
- Able to verbalize or indicate pain by using a traditional verbal scale such as the numeric rating scale at the 2nd hr. of Post anesthesia care unit arrival.
Exclusion
- Patients unable to self-report acute pain
- Patients with a history of chronic pain, moderate to high acute pain previous to surgery.
- Patients with a previous diagnosis of chronic cognitive impairment (Dementia, Alzheimer …)
- Patients with a previous diagnosis of Neurologic impairment (paraplegia, q quadriplegia…)
- The patients excluded from the study will be patients with mental and psychological problems.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
September 1 2022
Trial Type :
OBSERVATIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
July 30 2023
Estimated Enrollment :
350 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT06065683
Start Date
September 1 2022
End Date
July 30 2023
Last Update
October 10 2023
Active Locations (1)
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Wollo Univeersity
Dessie, Ethiopia, 1145