Rebound pain is a well-recognized phenomenon after the effects of a nerve block wear off. Severe rebound pain can happen after outpatient surgery, with patients often needing to come back to the hospital or use other health care resources. People who are younger, female or have more pain before surgery are at higher risk of having rebound pain. Bone surgeries and upper limb surgeries also increase the chances of having rebound pain after surgery. Patients who have a tourniquet used during leg surgery often have worse pain after surgery compared to patients who get surgery without the use of a tourniquet. Things that may reduce the chances of getting rebound pain are the use of nerve block catheters, certain additives in nerve blocks and using multiple types of pain killers before the block wears off. Using nerve block catheters can be expensive, so a targeted approach of giving these catheters to patients who have the highest chances of getting rebound pain may be the best way to allocate resources and help patients. The aim of this study is to create and test a risk model for severe rebound pain after lower limb surgery where patients are getting a sciatic nerve block.
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Area Under the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Curve
Timeframe: Not a time dependent outcome (retrospective participant pain data up to 48 hours after a nerve block was administered)
Calibration Slope
Timeframe: Not a time dependent outcome (model validation test based on retrospective participant pain data up to 48 hours after a nerve block was administered)