NCT04953182

Pain Modality Treatment After Hemorrhoidectomy

Around the Clock Pain Treatment Modality Offer Better Pain Control and Less Opiates Drugs Use

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 5,335 (actual)
• Sponsor: Assuta Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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.

Conditions

• Pain, Acute
• Pain, Procedural

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Pain scale registry	The nurses ask the patient about the pain filling every two hours during the hospitalization.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-07-01
• Primary completion: 2020-12-31
• Completion: 2021-05-30
• First posted: 2021-07-07
• Last updated: 2021-07-07