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Introduction:
Postoperative pain is one of the greatest patient concerns following any surgery. Although an increased emphasis has been placed on pain management, approximately 80% of surgical patients report postoperative pain with 86% of patients rating their pain as moderate, severe, or
Somatic post-surgical pain is very distressing to patients which leads to important complications. Combined multimodal strategies involving nerve blocks, neuroaxial blocks, opiates, and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are necessary for optimal pain control.
Transversus abdominis plane (TAP)
1. Background and rationale:
Bladder cancer is the ninth most common cancer in the world while being considerably common in both developed and developing countries. Bladder cancer is the most common malignancy among Egyptian males and it had been previously attributed to Schistosoma infection, a
Pancreas cancer causes pain in 70% of newly diagnosed patients rising to over 80% in advanced cancer patients, and is the most common serious symptom. Pancreas cancer pain is strongly correlated with worsened survival, and relief of pain is correlated with better survival. Pancreas cancer pain is
Every year 350 patients undergo surgery due to colorectal cancer at Zealand University Hospital, Roskilde. The vast majority of the patients has to have part of their colon removed, a so-called hemicolectomy. The majority of the surgeries are performed using a minimal invasive laparoscopic technique
Postmastectomy pain syndrome (PMPS) is a neuropathic pain that can follow surgical treatment for breast cancer including radical mastectomy, modified radical mastectomy,and segmental mastectomy (lumpectomy) . The pain is distributed in the anterior chest, axilla, and medial and posterior parts of
Postoperative pain is a major cause of postoperative suffering, prolonged hospitalization, complications and increased costs. It has been shown that postoperative pain is a frequent and unresolved problem in Norwegian hospitals, and so also internationally. Building knowledge on pain prophylaxis and
Every year two hundred and twenty patients undergo elective caesarean section (CS) at the department of obstetric and gynaecologic surgery at Zealand University Hospital. The vast majority of these patients undergo the surgical procedure under spinal (subarachnoid) anaesthesia with Bupivacaine with
This study will be carried out in Assiut University Hospital pain clinic and in participation of department of neuropsychiatry in Assiut University Hospital. After obtaining approval of hospital ethical committee, informed written consent will be taken from all patients with malignant visceral pain
1. Study Objectives
1.1 Primary objective: The primary objective of this Phase IIa study is to establish clinical Proof-of-Concept (POC) by providing clinically and statistically significant evidence that GIC-1001 is safe and effective in managing visceral pain in male and female patients who
Methods
Thirty patients (ASA status 1-2) in the age group 50 - 75 years, undergoing elective radical retropubic prostatectomy would be included in this pilot study. The exact type of cancer, its staging, degree of spread to proximal or distant sites and the pathologic type of cancer would be
A TRIAL OF INTRAVESICAL THERAPY FOR INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS IN PATIENTS WITH GENERALIZED VULVODYNIA
BACKGROUND:
Interstitial Cystitis (IC) is a urologic pain syndrome. The classic symptoms of IC are frequency, urgency and pain (dysuria) in the absence of an infection or other obvious source. IC has
The epidemic of overweight and obesity in the United States of America along with its comorbidities continues to expand. Bariatric surgery has demonstrated to be the most effective and sustained method to control severe obesity and its comorbidities. For instance, type 2 diabetes mellitus was
Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS) has been used since 1967 for the treatment of pain: complex regional pain syndromes 1 , ischemic limb pain 2-5, failed back surgery syndrome 6, 7, and refractory angina pectoris 8-11. Recently, Kapural et al. reported a case series of six patients that underwent SCS for