Incidencia del dolor crónico postoperatorio y factores asociados

Abstract

Abstract: To determine the incidence of chronic postoperative pain and its associated factors in patients undergoing urological procedures of the Isidro Ayora Hospital in the city of Loja, for this we select 50 patients, to whom we assess the pain by analogous visual scale and the neuropathic characteristics with the questionnaire Paint Detect, in the preoperative and postoperative at 24 and 48 hours, first and third month. In the results we found an incidence of chronic postoperative pain of 2%, a significant correlation was found between pain prior to surgery (VAS p = 0.001), post-surgical pain at 48 hours (VAS p = 0.017; Paint Detect p = 0.017) and postoperative pain at the first month (VAS p = 0.001; Paint Detect p = 0.000) with the development of chronic postoperative pain at the third month). The incidence of chronic postoperative pain in urology patients was only 2%, only Significant association was found between pain before surgery, post-surgical pain at 48 hours and first month with the development of chronic post-surgical pain at the third month.