The effect of patients' arm position during surgery on postoperative shoulder pain in patients undergoing cardiac surgery
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- postoperative shoulder joint pain.Pain in limb
- Registration Number
- IRCT2013113014190N2
- Lead Sponsor
- Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Vice Chancellor for Research and technology
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 580
Inclusion Criteria
patients candidate for coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) surgery
Exclusion criteria: people who mentioned experience of the shoulder joint problems, pain and limit of motion in the left arms, patient whose Left Mammary artery (LIMA) was not used for graft for any reason, or their central venous pressure (CVP) catheter was inserted via inferior Jugular Vein or Left sub-clavian vein, because of the possibility of damage to the left brachial nerve plexus.
Exclusion Criteria
Not provided
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Shoulder joint pain. Timepoint: Two weeks after surgery. Method of measurement: Two weeks after the surgery, all patients were examined by a specialist. And if pain existed, using the profile, examination and taking ECG, the physician differentiated shoulder pain caused by ischemic heart disease (IHD) from chronic postoperative pain (CPOP) and if the origin of the pain was seen in the IHD, the patient was excluded from the study. It should be noted that the criteria for the presence or absence of pain was the patient's declaration.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method