Perioperative Pain Management of Pediatric Appendectomy Patients
- Conditions
- Appendicitis
- Interventions
- Procedure: appendicectomy
- Registration Number
- NCT02580487
- Lead Sponsor
- Kuopio University Hospital
- Brief Summary
Acute appendicitis is the most common illness that brings pediatric patients to the hospital for surgical treatment. Abdominal pain is the symptom because of which the patients go to the hospital. Some patients have severe pain and need analgesics before the final diagnosis and before surgery. After surgery most patient experience pain and at least 80 % of the patients need postoperative pain medication. For two decades there has been a clinical guideline for pain management in Kuopio University Hospital (KUH). The investigators aim was to evaluate how well the pain management for pediatric patient works in clinical practice.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 178
- In prospective patients informed consent obtained
- Appendectomy performed
- No informed consent
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description retrospective group appendicectomy Patients whose pain evaluation, analgesics used and details of surgery were collected from patient files Prospective group appendicectomy Patients who were interviewed before and after surgery when they were at the hospital
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Pain from preoperative evaluation until the patient left hospital maximum of 7 days pain is asked preoperatively and at the first postoperative day measured with numeral rating scale
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method amount of opioids used during hospital stay from preoperative evaluation until the patient left hospital maximum of 7 days collected from patient files
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Kuopio University Hospital
🇫🇮Kuopio, Northern savo, Finland