Pain Modality Treatment After Hemorrhoidectomy

Completed

• Conditions: Pain, Acute; Pain, Procedural
• Interventions: Other: Pain scale registry

• Registration Number: NCT04953182
• Lead Sponsor: Assuta Medical Center

Brief Summary

Hemorrhoidectomy is one of the operations that causes the greatest intensity of pain. Treatment of postoperative pain is essential for the well-being of the patient. Long-term use of opioids and different drugs can have unintended consequences.

The objective is to corroborate which pain treatment modality is better in patients after hemorrhoidectomy.

Detailed Description

Patients who have undergone a hemorrhoidectomy are included in the study, the pain treatment modality is conceived by the treating surgeon or anesthesiologist. The first modality is to administer pain killers on-demand depending on visual analog scales of pain and the second modality to give pain killers on determined hours.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2016-07-01
• Primary Completion: 2020-12-31
• Study Completion: 2021-05-30
• Study First Submitted: 2021-06-26
• Status Verified: 2021-07
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-07-03
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-07-03
• Study First Posted: 2021-07-07
• Last Update Posted: 2021-07-07

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 5335

Inclusion Criteria

Elective surgery for hemorrhoids

Exclusion Criteria

Mental retardation Incapacitated patient Under 18 years old

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Around the clock analgetic treatment	Pain scale registry	Patients that underwent hemorrhoidectomy and pain killers are prescribed every specific hour independent of pain degree, if necessary drugs can be administered on demand.
On demand analgetic treatment	Pain scale registry	A pain killers list is prescribed by the physician and the nurse decides which drug to administer depending on a protocol of treatment based on the visual analog scale.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Drugs Administred	Immediately after the intervention/procedure/surgery	The amount of drugs administred to each patients is analyzed
Pain medition	Immediately after the intervention/procedure/surgery	The pain registred is analyze as maximum, mean and on discharge.