Clinical Meaning of Visual Analog Scales(VAS) for Teenage Pediatric Patients Undergoing Laparoscopic Surgical Procedures

Completed

Conditions studied: Postoperative Pain

In brief

The purpose of this study is to find a more accurate postoperative pain assessment for teenager patients. This is important because a patient should not have a very strong pain medication such as morphine if the pain is just mild.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01755065

Run by

University of Pittsburgh

People needed

206

Starts

2012-12-01

Expected to finish

2015-11-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-10-19

Who can join

Age: 11 and older, up to 17. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• 11-17 years old, both male and female
• the patient is having any laparoscopic surgeries, elective or emergent, including robotic surgeries
• the patient will be admitted in hospital for at least 23 hours

You may not qualify if…

• Patient and family refusal
• Patient already enrolled in another study
• Non English-speaking patients and families
• Cognitive impairment
• Developmental delay
• Patients who experienced surgical, anesthesia or medical complications;
• Patients with chronic pain condition (pain more than 3 months)
• Patients medicated at home or in hospital with long acting opioid pain medication (methadone, oxycontin, oxymorphone ER, morphine slow release)
• Patients with psychiatric medical history (except attention deficit disorders such us: ADD and ADHD)
• Patients taking at home the following medication: clonidine, antipsychotic, antidepressant and anxiolytic medications.
• Patients taking drugs, including smoking marijuana and other recreational drugs
• Positive pregnancy test
• Laparoscopic surgical procedures converted to open procedures
• Patients will be discharged on the day of surgery.
• If none of the patient's parent will stay with the child during hospital stay, the patient will be not enrolled in the study. If all 8 questionnaires cannot be filled on the day after surgery, the patient will be discontinued from this study.

Where it is running

• Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

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