Liver Cauterization Increases the Postoperative Pain After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

Umraniye Education and Research Hospital81 enrolled

Overview

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is a common accepted surgical operation with lower morbidity all over the world for gallstone. Although it has low morbidity, postoperative pain is challenging situation like every other operation.

Postoperative pain after laparoscopic cholecystectomy has a three component: parietal, visceral and referring (shoulder) pain. Although intensities of them can be various, all of them affects the total pain together. Unintentional liver cauterization during laparoscopic cholecystectomy is unwanted, but sometimes unavoidable complication/process. However its effect on postoperative pain is not studied with detail in literature.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

Conditions

Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Postoperative Pain

Interventions

Laparoscopic cholecystectomyPROCEDURE

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 90 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status I-II * Presumptive diagnosis of benign gallbladder disease Exclusion Criteria: * The patients with concurrent chronic disease like osteoporosis, and liver, pulmonary or renal disease, malignant disease

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Visual analog scale (VAS) abdominal pain scores

Time frame: Postoperative 2nd hour

Visual analog scale (VAS) abdominal pain scores

Time frame: Postoperative 24th hour

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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