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Effect of TENS Application After Thoracic Surgery

NCT05927168 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2023-07-03

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Summary

After thoracic surgery, a chest tube is inserted to evacuate the air and fluid formed in the pleural space and to provide hemodynamic stability. During chest tube placement, subcutaneous tissue layers, muscles and parietal pleura are passed through. This process is a trauma and the affected tissues show an inflammatory reaction to the trauma. The chest tube adheres to the tissue it comes into contact with and may experience mild, moderate and severe pain due to the separation of the adhesion due to pulling during removal. Chest tube removal is described as a severely painful procedure in studies. Analgesics are generally used in the treatment of acute pain during chest tube removal (Wei et al. 2022). However, pain guidelines and studies recommend the use of analgesics with non-pharmacological methods in order to minimize the pain experienced during chest tube removal and to provide adequate analgesia. One of the non-pharmacological methods used in pain management is Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS). TENS, an electroanalgesia method, helps to control pain by providing skin stimulation through surface electrodes placed on the skin.While there are studies in the literature on the use of TENS in reducing the pain caused by chest tube removal after different surgical interventions, there are limited studies investigating the effect of TENS on the level of pain during chest tube removal and postoperative analgesic consumption after thoracic surgery. In this context, in this study, it is aimed to determine the effect of TENS application after thoracic surgery on pain level and analgesic requirement during chest tube removal.

Conditions

  • Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation
  • Procedural Pain

Interventions

DEVICE

TENS

TENS will be applied to the experimental group 45 minutes before the chest tube is removed and another 15 minutes after the chest tube is removed. Patients' pain scores will be evaluated using the Numerical Pain Scale (SAS) just before the TENS procedure, while the chest tube is removed, and 5 minutes after the TENS application is finished.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Cukurova University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Açelya Türkmen, PhD · Cukurova University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-06-01
Primary Completion
2023-12-31
Completion
2023-12-31

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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