Open Access<p>Risk Factors Associated with Development of Acute and Sub-Acute Post-Cesarean Pain: A Prospective Cohort Study</p>
Author(s) -
Jason Ju In Chan,
Chin Wen Tan,
Cheng Teng Yeam,
Rehena Sultana,
Alex Tiong Heng Sia,
Ashraf S. Habib,
Ban Leong Sng
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of pain research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.888
H-Index - 49
ISSN - 1178-7090
DOI - 10.2147/jpr.s257442
Subject(s) - medicine , anesthesia , cesarean delivery , acute pain , prospective cohort study , incidence (geometry) , logistic regression , pain score , area under the curve , pregnancy , surgery , genetics , physics , optics , biology
Although cesarean delivery is one of the most commonly performed surgical procedures, robust data regarding post-cesarean pain is still lacking. Recent studies showed an association between pain upon local anesthetic (LA) injection for spinal anesthesia, or the use of a "three simple questions", and acute post-cesarean pain. Nevertheless, these assessments have yet to be validated further, despite their relative ease of use. We aimed to assess the association between pain score upon LA injection with acute post-cesarean pain after 24 hours at rest (primary outcome) and sub-acute post-cesarean pain lasting for 4 weeks or more (secondary outcome).