NCT01105039

Detailed Pain Pattern After Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia Repair

Early Pain Pattern and Its Components After Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia Repair

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: Zealand University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years – 69 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Pain after laparoscopic groin hernia repair consist of different pain components (overall pain, shoulder pain, incisional pain and visceral pain). Thus it is important to find out which of these pain components that is most severe, so intervention can be targeted.

Detailed description

Details about the components of early pain after laparoscopic groin hernia repair are lacking. A description of each component (overall pain, shoulder pain,incisional pain and visceral pain) is needed, so intervention against the different pain components can be targeted. Patients fill out questionnaires about pain before operation and day 0-3 after operation.

Conditions

• Inguinal Hernia
• Femoral Hernia

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-11-01
• Primary completion: 2010-08-01
• Completion: 2010-09-01
• First posted: 2010-04-16
• Last updated: 2011-04-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark