Kids' Post-Surgery pain under the microscope: study checks if current care is enough
NCT ID NCT07392827
First seen Jun 25, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study looked at how well pain is managed in children right after surgery. Researchers watched 219 kids aged 0-18 years during their first hour in recovery, using pain scales suited to each age group. The goal was simply to measure how often standard care keeps pain scores low, without changing any treatments. It's a fact-finding mission, not a test of a new drug or method.
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Study facts
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- Participants
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219 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Sep 2025
- Finished
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Feb 2026
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
Who is studied
Eligible pediatric patients undergoing elective surgery were consecutively enrolled during the study period.
- Ages
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0 to 18 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Patients aged 0-18 years operated on by the Pediatric Surgery Department, * Elective pediatric operations are performed under general anesthesia, * ASA I-III group patients, Exclusion Criteria: * o Hemodynamically unstable patients. o ASA IV-VI group patients with life-threatening conditions. o Patients requiring emergency surgery. 0 Patients requiring emergency surgery. o Patients over 18 years of age, * Patients admitted under sedation, * Non-surgical diagnostic or minimally invasive procedures such as gastroscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, and direct laryngoscopy, * Non-surgical needle biopsies, * Catheter placement and removal procedures, * Pain management interventions for chronic pain patients (TENS, Acupuncture), * Neurological (patients with chronic analgesic syndrome, peripheral neuropathies, spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy, meningomyelocele, multiple sclerosis, and neurodegenerative diseases) and mental developmental delay (autism spectrum disorders, mental retardation, Down syndrome), * Patients being followed up and treated for psychiatric illnesses (depression, anxiety disorder, somatization disorder, conversion disorder, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder), * Patients with chronic pain syndrome or neuropathic pain who are using continuous analgesics in the preoperative period. Patients with a history of drug and psychoactive substance use, patients who are intubated postoperatively or monitored under intensive sedation for a long period, patients who are hemodynamically unstable in the postoperative period, patients who develop serious postoperative complications (hemorrhage, sepsis, MOOS), patients who require repeat surgery during the postoperative follow-up period, patients for whom Informed Consent could not be obtained will be excluded from the study.
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Hacettepe University Hospital
Ankara, Altındag, 06230, Turkey (Türkiye)
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