Early Postoperative Pain After Cardiac Surgery

Condition(s) studied

Study summary

This observational study will evaluate factors that may be associated with pain during the first 24 hours after open heart surgery. The study will include adult patients who underwent coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), heart valve surgery, or combined cardiac surgery.

Researchers will retrospectively review existing medical records to examine whether patient characteristics, preoperative anxiety and depression, and factors related to surgery and anesthesia are associated with postoperative pain. The study will also evaluate postoperative nausea and vomiting and the need for additional pain medication.

No treatment or intervention will be assigned to participants as part of this study. Study data will be collected retrospectively from existing medical records.

Eligibility

Primary outcome measure(s)

• Mean Postoperative Pain Score During the First 24 Hours — First 24 hours after surgery
  Postoperative pain will be assessed at rest using the 0-10 Numeric Rating Scale (NRS), where 0 indicates no pain and 10 indicates the worst pain. NRS scores recorded at 0, 3, 6, 12, and 24 hours after the initial postoperative assessment in the intensive care unit will be used to calculate the mean pain score (NRSmean) for the first 24 postoperative hours.

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