Incidence of Pain After Craniotomy in Children

Launched by SAN GERARDO HOSPITAL · Jun 10, 2010

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ClinConnect Summary

Research in the adult population has evaluated incidence and severity of post-neurosurgical pain, and effectiveness of different post-neurosurgical analgesic regimens. Several small studies report the prevalence of some period of moderate to severe pain in the first 24 postoperative hours to be from 41 to 84 % of patients. In a prospective single academic medical institution study, adult patients treated with only acetaminophen and modest amounts of opioids on an as needed basis reported moderate to severe pain for the first 2 days after surgery. These findings have supported a growing cons...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Male and Female children from 1 month to 10 years Of age
• • American Society of Anaesthesiologists Classification (ASA) I-III
• • Scheduled for supratentorial or infratentorial craniotomy
• • Admission to an Intensive Care Unit, Neurosurgery ward or paediatric ward of one of the hospitals included
• • Children whose parents (or legal tutors) have given their informed written consent
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Emergency surgery for multiple trauma.
• • Children requiring muscular relaxants during the postoperative period
• • Children whose parents (or legal tutors) denied their own consensus