Acute Preoperative Pain and Chronic Post-surgical Pain in Emergency Surgery

Launched by CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE, AMIENS · Aug 13, 2024

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ClinConnect Summary

This clinical trial is studying how intense pain experienced before emergency surgeries, like orthopaedic or abdominal operations, might affect the likelihood of developing long-term pain after the surgery. Researchers want to understand if having severe pain right before an emergency operation could lead to more problems with pain three months after the surgery. This is important because most studies have focused on planned surgeries rather than emergencies, where patients often experience significant pain for a shorter time.

To be eligible for the trial, participants need to be at least 18 years old and undergoing an emergency orthopaedic or abdominal surgery. They also need to be able to give informed consent and be part of a social security scheme. The study will not include patients who have serious complications during surgery, need intensive care afterward, or have certain health conditions that affect their ability to communicate about their pain. Participants will help researchers by sharing their experiences of pain before and after the surgery, which could lead to better pain management for future patients.

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Age ≥18 years old.
• • Emergency orthopaedic and/or abdominal surgery.
• • Informed consent.
• • Affiliation to a social security scheme
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Intraoperative complications that are life-threatening or require the surgical procedure to be discontinued.
• • Post-operative intensive care unit admission.
• • Ambulatory surgery.
• • Endoscopic surgery.
• • Repeat surgery at the same site in less that 3months.
• • Pregnant or breast-feeding patients.
• • Patients under guardianship or deprived of liberty.
• • Patients suffering from psychiatric pathologies.
• • Patients suffering from neurodegenerative pathologies.
• • Patients for whom self-assessment of pain using a numerical scale (0-10) cannot be carried out (non-communicative patients, non-French-speaking patients, and so on).