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   <dc:title>Postoperative pain in patients with opioid tolerance: the importance of therapeutic individualisation</dc:title>
   <dc:creator>Jiménez Carrascal, Ivan</dc:creator>
   <dc:contributor>Universitat de Girona. Facultat de Medicina</dc:contributor>
   <dc:contributor>Regi Roman, Kevin</dc:contributor>
   <dc:contributor>Martí Lluch, Ruth</dc:contributor>
   <dc:subject>Dolor postoperatori</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Pain, Postoperative</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Morfina</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Morphine</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Analgèsia</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Analgesia</dc:subject>
   <dc:description>Background: patients with chronic cancer pain are often treated with opioids for&#xd;
pain relief. However, their exposure leads to tolerance and alterations in the&#xd;
nociceptive signal, requiring increased doses to achieve the same pain control. This&#xd;
is one of the reasons why this group is considered difficult to manage in&#xd;
anaesthesiology. In addition, the lack of specific studies and protocols for this&#xd;
population results in poorer analgesic management and an increase in&#xd;
postoperative complications compared with opioid-naïve patients.&#xd;
Objective: the main objective is to compare the effect of individualizing the&#xd;
intravenous morphine rescue dose in PCA (Patient-Controlled Analgesia) devices&#xd;
based on preoperative opioid dose on the proportion of patients achieving&#xd;
acceptable pain control (Numerical Rating Scale ≤3 at rest, 24 h postoperatively)&#xd;
compared with a standard PCA morphine dose, in opioid-tolerant patients&#xd;
undergoing laparoscopic abdominal oncologic surgery.&#xd;
Study design and participants: this trial is a randomised, double-blind,&#xd;
multicentre, prospective, controlled trial that will study 336 patients (≥18 years)&#xd;
exposed to ≥60 mg oral morphine equivalent for ≥7 days, scheduled for laparoscopic&#xd;
oncologic abdominal surgery at Hospital Universitari Doctor Josep Trueta or&#xd;
Bellvitge University Hospital over one year.&#xd;
Methods: participating patients who have provided informed consent will be&#xd;
randomised 1:1 into two groups: standard PCA morphine rescue dose according to&#xd;
the institutional protocol or individualised PCA morphine dose adjusted to the&#xd;
patient's preoperative oral morphine equivalent (OME). During the postoperative&#xd;
stay in the Post-Anaesthesia Care Unit (PACU), patients will be controlled during the&#xd;
first 24 hours, where they will receive multimodal analgesia according to the&#xd;
protocol. At 24 hours, the proportion of patients with acceptable pain at rest (NRS&#xd;
≤3) will be measured</dc:description>
   <dc:description>3</dc:description>
   <dc:date>2025-10</dc:date>
   <dc:type>info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis</dc:type>
   <dc:identifier>http://hdl.handle.net/10256/28586</dc:identifier>
   <dc:identifier>https://hdl.handle.net/10256/28586</dc:identifier>
   <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
   <dc:rights>Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International</dc:rights>
   <dc:rights>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/</dc:rights>
   <dc:rights>info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess</dc:rights>
   <dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format>
   <dc:source>Medicina (TFG)</dc:source>
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