Identifying Patients at High Risk of Chronic Pain After Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery Using Thermal Quantitative Sensory Testing.
J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth
; 36(8 Pt A): 2406-2411, 2022 08.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
To examine whether perioperative thermal quantitative sensory testing could be used to identify patients at high risk of chronic pain after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS).DESIGN:
A single-center, prospective, observational study.SETTING:
At the Peking University People's Hospital.PARTICIPANTS:
A total of 111 patients scheduled to undergo VATS were enrolled.INTERVENTIONS:
Quantitative sensory testing was conducted at the anterior intercostal incision prior to surgery and after chest tube removal. MEASUREMENTS AND MAINRESULTS:
The patient's chronic pain was assessed at 3 months after surgery using a questionnaire. The incidence of chronic pain was 35 out of 107 evaluable patients (32.7%). Among the 35 patients with chronic pain, 26 had features characteristic of neuropathic pain (74.3%). Compared to the patients without chronic pain, subjects with chronic pain had a significantly greater perioperative change in cold pain threshold (CPT; p = 0.032), but not cold detection threshold, warm detection threshold, and hot pain threshold . In the multivariate regression, perioperative CPT change was associated with chronic pain after VATS (odds ratio = 1.043, p = 0.026).CONCLUSIONS:
Chronic pain after VATS is typically neuropathic. The change in perioperative CPT at the incision site may help to identify patients at higher risk of chronic pain after VATS.Palabras clave
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Dolor Crónico
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Neoplasias Pulmonares
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Diagnostic_studies
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Etiology_studies
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Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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Humans
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2022
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