Affecting Factors for Chronic Pain After Sternotomy
RecruitingNCT06534372
View the official record on ClinicalTrials.gov Recruiting status changes often. Contact the study team listed on ClinicalTrials.gov, and talk to your doctor before joining a study.
This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
Chronic pain is common complication of surgery procedures. Rates of mortalits is getting lower in cardiac surgery. This situation has brought us to focus morbidity and long term life quality. Previous study show that chronic pain after cardiac surgery is experienced 11-40% patient. Multifactorial causes play a role in chronic pain etiology. The aim of our study is to determine the causes of chronic pain in patients who underwent sternotomy.
Study details
- Official title
- Affecting Factors the Incidince of Chronic Pain After Sternotomy
- Conditions
- Cardiac Surgery
- Sternotomy
- Pain, Acute
- Pain, Chronic
- Interventions
- Procedure: Open cardiac surgery with sternotomy
- Sponsor
- Ankara Etlik City Hospital
- Start date
- 2024-09-01
- Primary completion
- 2026-03-10
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 80 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Total sites listed
- 2
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Between the ages of 18-80 * BMI 18-35 kg/m2 * ASA (American Society of Anesthesiologists) Scoring I-II-III * Elective open coronary artery bypass graft surgery * Elective open heart valve surgery * Patients who will undergo general anesthesia * Patients who agree to participate in the study and sign a form Exclusion Criteria: * Patients under 18 and over 80 years of age * Patients who do not want to participate in the study * Patients with advanced organ failure (liver failure, renal failure) * Patients with chronic pain or chronic opioid use * Patients with alcohol, substance or drug addiction * Patients planned for surgery with thoracotomy * Patients with a history of previous sternotomy (redo) * Patients with limited cooperation such as dementia, psychiatric disorders * Pregnant and breastfeeding patients will be excluded from the study. * Patients who cannot communicate in their native language will be excluded from the study
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06534372