Post-discharge Pain After Breast-surgery Treated by Paravertebral Block
Persistent Post-discharge Pain After Breast Surgery With Paravertebral Block: Incidence, Characteristics and Consequences
Breast surgery is known being associated to a high risk of persistent post-operative pain, which has been related, among other factors, to a poorly treated acute pain. Paravertebral block has been successfully employed for anesthesia and analgesia after breast surgery, however its impact on persistent post-operative pain has rarely been investigated. Aim of this study is to assess prevalence, characteristics and consequences of post-discharge pain and its correlation to the incidence of persistent post-operative pain development in a continuous cohort of patients undergoing breast surgery with a paravertebral block.
Investigators designed a prospective, observational study on a continuous cohort of adult patients undergoing breast surgery with a standardized thoracic paravertebral block performed before general anesthesia induction. Patients were subsequently interviewed 6 months after hospital discharge in order to assess the incidence, features and duration of post-discharge pain.
Studienübersicht
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Detaillierte Beschreibung
Breast cancer is the most frequent cancer in women, with an incidence of more than one million new cases per year. In the majority of cases surgery is part of the treatment and prognosis has progressively improved during last years. Attention is thus being increasingly focusing on these patients' quality of life and chronic postsurgical pain, defined as pain in the area of surgery lasting beyond 3 month from the operation, has emerged as a frequent long-term complication, with prevalence up to 60%. This often-disabling condition has been shown to significantly affect cancer survivors' quality of life and to have a heavy economic impact on the healthcare system.
Many potential risk factors have been proposed for the development of chronic post-breast surgery pain. A Cochrane systematic review has addressed the role of regional anesthesia in preventing the development of chronic postoperative pain, suggesting that "paravertebral block may reduce the pain after breast cancer surgery in about one out every five women treated", these results being however weakened by the often poor quality and inadequate power of the studies available. Many predictors of chronic postoperative pain have been identified, one of them being a poorly treated acute pain; in this perspective, regional anesthesia could possibly play a role in preventing nervous system remodeling with resultant hyperalgesia, allodynia and sustained wound pain.
Even if chronic postoperative pain has been progressively recognized as an issue after breast cancer surgery, its link to poorly treated acute postoperative pain and post-discharge pain (PDP) has been poorly investigated. Single shot paravertebral block is an effective technique to provide both anesthesia and good analgesia after breast surgery, but its benefits duration is still debated.
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Bellinzona, Schweiz, 6500
- Andrea Saporito MD
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Inclusion Criteria:
- female sex
- 18 years or greater
- elective breast surgery (tumor resection, mastectomy, lumpectomy)
- local regional anesthesia
Exclusion Criteria:
- patients refusal,
- general contraindications to regional anesthesia,
- the inability to perform a complete block
- diagnosed COPD or other respiratory diseases,
- ASA score risk greater than 3.
Studienplan
Wie ist die Studie aufgebaut?
Designdetails
Kohorten und Interventionen
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Breast-surgery patients
A consecutive cohort of adult patients undergoing breast surgery with a combined anesthesia technique, employing a thoracic single-shot paravertebral block performed before surgery.
Operations performed were in all cases unilateral tumor resections, lumpectomies and mastectomies without axillary lymphadenectomy.
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Patients were contacted by phone 6 months after surgery and, after oral consent, a standardized questionnaire was administered in order to inquiry about the length and nature of post-operative pain, the incidence of post-discharge pain, its characteristics, its impact on daily life, its treatment and its rate of chronicity
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Was misst die Studie?
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Post-discharge pain
Zeitfenster: 6 months post-surgery
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Primary endpoint of this study is to assess the incidence of post-discharge pain in a cohort of patients undergoing breast surgery with a single shot thoracic paravertebral block.
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6 months post-surgery
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Pain characteristics
Zeitfenster: 6 months post-surgery
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Secondary endpoints is to characterize this post-discharge pain in terms of pain characteristics, evaluated by Numerical Rating Scale (NRS, from 0 intended as no pain, to 10 as maximal pain), on patient daily life after discharge home.
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6 months post-surgery
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Pain impact
Zeitfenster: 6 months post-surgery
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Secondary endpoints is to characterize this post-discharge pain in terms of pain impact on patient daily life after discharge home, intended as capable to impact especially on a) work, b) leisure or c) sleep.
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6 months post-surgery
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Mitarbeiter und Ermittler
Sponsor
Mitarbeiter
Ermittler
- Studienstuhl: Luciano Anselmi, MD, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, Bellinzona
- Hauptermittler: Andrea Saporito, MD, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, Bellinzona
- Studienleiter: José Aguirre, MD, Balgrist
Publikationen und hilfreiche Links
Allgemeine Veröffentlichungen
- Mejdahl MK, Andersen KG, Gartner R, Kroman N, Kehlet H. Persistent pain and sensory disturbances after treatment for breast cancer: six year nationwide follow-up study. BMJ. 2013 Apr 11;346:f1865. doi: 10.1136/bmj.f1865.
- Andersen KG, Kehlet H. Persistent pain after breast cancer treatment: a critical review of risk factors and strategies for prevention. J Pain. 2011 Jul;12(7):725-46. doi: 10.1016/j.jpain.2010.12.005. Epub 2011 Mar 24.
- Cronin-Fenton DP, Norgaard M, Jacobsen J, Garne JP, Ewertz M, Lash TL, Sorensen HT. Comorbidity and survival of Danish breast cancer patients from 1995 to 2005. Br J Cancer. 2007 May 7;96(9):1462-8. doi: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6603717. Epub 2007 Apr 3.
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- Peuckmann V, Ekholm O, Rasmussen NK, Groenvold M, Christiansen P, Moller S, Eriksen J, Sjogren P. Chronic pain and other sequelae in long-term breast cancer survivors: nationwide survey in Denmark. Eur J Pain. 2009 May;13(5):478-85. doi: 10.1016/j.ejpain.2008.05.015. Epub 2008 Jul 16.
- Blyth FM, March LM, Brnabic AJ, Cousins MJ. Chronic pain and frequent use of health care. Pain. 2004 Sep;111(1-2):51-8. doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2004.05.020.
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- Andreae MH, Andreae DA. Local anaesthetics and regional anaesthesia for preventing chronic pain after surgery. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2012 Oct 17;10:CD007105. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD007105.pub2.
- Schreiber KL, Martel MO, Shnol H, Shaffer JR, Greco C, Viray N, Taylor LN, McLaughlin M, Brufsky A, Ahrendt G, Bovbjerg D, Edwards RR, Belfer I. Persistent pain in postmastectomy patients: comparison of psychophysical, medical, surgical, and psychosocial characteristics between patients with and without pain. Pain. 2013 May;154(5):660-668. doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2012.11.015. Epub 2012 Dec 5.
- Staud R. Peripheral pain mechanisms in chronic widespread pain. Best Pract Res Clin Rheumatol. 2011 Apr;25(2):155-64. doi: 10.1016/j.berh.2010.01.010.
- Saporito A, Aguirre J, Borgeat A, Perren A, Anselmi L, Poggi R, Minotti B, Cafarotti S, La Regina D, Ceruti S. Persistent postdischarge pain and chronic postoperative pain after breast cancer surgery under general anesthesia and single-shot paravertebral block: incidence, characteristics and impact on quality of life and healthcare costs. J Pain Res. 2019 Apr 16;12:1193-1199. doi: 10.2147/JPR.S195702. eCollection 2019.
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