ArticleJournal of pain research2018
Hypnosis intervention for the management of pain perception during cataract surgery.
Article in Journal of pain research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Hypnosis for anaesthetists: a systematic review and meta-analyses.Anaesthesia · 2026Pooled it
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- Evaluating Psychological Interventions for Pain, Recovery, and Outcomes in Surgical and Medical Care.Cureus · 2025Review
- Adjunctive use of hypnosis for clinical pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Pain reports · 2024Review
- Adjunctive hypnotic communication for analgosedation in subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillator implantation. A prospective single center pilot study.International journal of cardiology. Heart & vasculature · 2021Article
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- Comparison in Sedative Effects between Dexmedetomidine and Midazolam in Dental Implantation: A Randomized Clinical Trial.BioMed research international · 2020Article
- Hypnotic communication for periprocedural analgesia during transcatheter ablation of atrial fibrillation.International journal of cardiology. Heart & vasculature · 2019Article
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- Erratum issued
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7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
objectiveTo investigate the effectiveness of hypnosis in pain management during cataract surgery.
methodsMale or female patients with bilateral age-related cataract who wished to have both eyes subjected to phacoemulsification surgery were preliminarily admitted. Immediately after the first-eye surgery, each patient was evaluated for pain using the visual analog scale (VAS), and patients with a VAS score >1 were enrolled. By using block randomization, the enrolled patients were allocated to either the treatment group, which received a hypnosis intervention before the scheduled second-eye surgery, or the control group, which did not undergo hypnosis. The levels of anxiety, pain, and cooperation were evaluated independently by the patients and the surgeon.
resultsDuring the intraoperative pain assessment, 5%, 34%, 38%, and 23% of patients in the control group reported experiencing no pain, mild pain, moderate pain, and severe pain, respectively. In contrast, in the hypnosis group, 18%, 56%, 15%, and 11% of patients reported experiencing no pain, mild pain, moderate pain, and severe pain, respectively, which showed significant differences between the groups (
conclusionHypnosis may be considered as an auxiliary measure in cataract surgery, especially for patients who experienced obvious pain during the first-eye surgery.
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