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Wylde, V., Dennis, J., Beswick, A. D., Bruce, J. (Julie), Eccleston, C., Howells, N., Peters, T. J. and Gooberman-Hill, R. (2017) Systematic review of management of chronic pain after surgery. British Journal of Surgery, 104 (10). pp. 1293-1306. doi:10.1002/bjs.10601
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.10601
Abstract
Background:
Pain present for at least 3 months after a surgical procedure is considered chronic postsurgical pain (CPSP) and affects 10–50 per cent of patients. Interventions for CPSP may focus on the underlying condition that indicated surgery, the aetiology of new-onset pain or be multifactorial in recognition of the diverse causes of this pain. The aim of this systematic review was to identify RCTs of interventions for the management of CPSP, and synthesize data across treatment type to estimate their effectiveness and safety.
Methods:
MEDLINE, Embase, PsycINFO, CINAHL and the Cochrane Library were searched from inception to March 2016. Trials of pain interventions received by patients at 3 months or more after surgery were included. Risk of bias was assessed using the Cochrane risk-of-bias tool.
Results:
Some 66 trials with data from 3149 participants were included. Most trials included patients with chronic pain after spinal surgery (25 trials) or phantom limb pain (21 trials). Interventions were predominantly pharmacological, including antiepileptics, capsaicin, epidural steroid injections, local anaesthetic, neurotoxins, N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor antagonists and opioids. Other interventions included acupuncture, exercise, postamputation limb liner, spinal cord stimulation, further surgery, laser therapy, magnetic stimulation, mindfulness-based stress reduction, mirror therapy and sensory discrimination training. Opportunities for meta-analysis were limited by heterogeneity. For all interventions, there was insufficient evidence to draw conclusions on effectiveness.
Conclusion:
There is a need for more evidence about interventions for CPSP. High-quality trials of multimodal interventions matched to pain characteristics are needed to provide robust evidence to guide management of CPSP.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RD Surgery | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Clinical Trials Unit Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Postoperative pain, Systematic reviews (Medical research) | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | British Journal of Surgery | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0007-1323 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | September 2017 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 104 | ||||||||
| Number: | 10 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1293-1306 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1002/bjs.10601 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||||||
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