Patricia Lavand'homme - Research clinician (IONS/CEMO)




Anaesthesiologist and pain specialist at the Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc. Head of the Transitional Pain Clinic. Her team studies acute postoperative pain mechanisms and management as well as the prevention of persistent pain after surgery. Member of various scientific societies, past-Chairperson of the Acute and Chronic Pain Scientific Committee of the European Society of Anesthesiology. Involved in the IASP Task Force mandated by the WHO to develop a new pragmatic classification of chronic pain (including chronic post-surgical and post-traumatic pain) to be included in the revised version of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD11). Currently collaborates to several international studies supported by European grants.



Publications
2023
Prolonged continuous wound infusion of local anesthetic and steroid after major abdominal surgery to reduce opioid consumption: a randomized, double-blind trial
Minerva Anestesiol
Bugada D, Compagnone C, Bettinelli S, Grimaldi S, DE Gregori M, Muscoli C, Berretta R, Cobianchi L, Peloso A, Lorini L, Lavand'homme P, Allegri M.
89(7-8):625-635.
2023
Comparison between pupillometry and numeric pain rating scale for pain assessments in communicating adult patients in the emergency department
Eur J Pain
Gregoire C, Charier D, de Bergeyck R, Mouraux A, Van Ouytsel F, Lambert R, Zhou N, Lavand'homme P, Penaloza A, Pickering G.
in press.
2022
Use of regional analgesia to prevent the conversion from acute to chronic pain
Curr Opin Anaesthesiol
Geradon P, Lavand'homme P
35(5):641-646.
2022
Pain management after total knee arthroplasty: PROcedure SPEcific Postoperative Pain ManagemenT recommendations
Eur J Anaesthesiol
Lavand'homme PM, Kehlet H, Rawal N, Joshi GP; PROSPECT Working Group of the European Society of Regional Anaesthesia and Pain Therapy (ESRA).
9(9):743-757.
2022
Procedural Sedation With Dexmedetomidine in Combination With Ketamine in the Emergency Department
J Emerg Med
Grégoire C, De Kock M, Henrie J, Cren R, Lavand'homme P, Penaloza A, Verschuren F.
63(2):283-289.
2022
Towards better predictive models of chronic post-surgical pain: fitting to the dynamic nature of the pain itself
Br J Anaesth
Fletcher D, Lavand'homme P
129(3):281-284.
Multichannel transcranial direct current stimulation over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex may modulate the induction of secondary hyperalgesia, a double-blinded cross-over study in healthy volunteers.
PLoS One
Steyaert A, Lenoir C, Lavand'homme P, van den Broeke EN, Mouraux A.
17(6):e0270047.
2022
Ultra-early initiation of postoperative rehabilitation in the post-anaesthesia care unit after major thoracic surgery: case-control study
BJS Open
Pastene B, Labarriere A, Lopez A, Charvet A, Culver A, Fiocchi D, Cluzel A, Brioude G, Einav S, Tankel J, Hamidou Z, D'Journo XB, Thomas P, Leone M, Zieleskiewicz L; GRACE Association.
6(3):zrac063.
2022
System-level policies on appropriate opioid use, a multi-stakeholder consensus
BMC Health Serv Res
Forget P, Patullo C, Hill D, Ambekar A, Baldacchino A, Cata J, Chetty S, Cox FJ, de Boer HD, Dinwoodie K, Dom G, Eccleston C, Fullen B, Jutila L, Knaggs RD, Lavand'homme P, Levy N, Lobo DN, Pogatzki-Zahn E, Scherbaum N, Smith BH, van Griensven J, Gilbert S.
2(1):329.
2022
Evaluation of intraoperative ketamine on the prevention of severe rebound pain upon cessation of peripheral nerve block: a prospective randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study
Br J Anaesth
Touil N, Pavlopoulou A, Barbier O, Libouton X, Lavand'homme P
28(4):734-741.
2021
Peripheral nerve block anesthesia/analgesia for patients undergoing primary hip and knee arthroplasty: recommendations from the International Consensus on Anesthesia-Related Outcomes after Surgery (ICAROS) group based on a systematic review and meta-analysis of current literature
Reg Anesth Pain Med
Memtsoudis SG, Cozowicz C, Bekeris J, Bekere D, Liu J, Soffin EM, Mariano ER, Johnson RL, Go G, Hargett MJ, Lee BH, Wendel P, Brouillette M, Kim SJ, Baaklini L, Wetmore DS, Hong G, Goto R, Jivanelli B, Athanassoglou V, Argyra E, Barrington MJ, Borgeat A, De Andres J, El-Boghdadly K, Elkassabany NM, Gautier P, Gerner P, Gonzalez Della Valle A, Goytizolo E, Guo Z, Hogg R, Kehlet H, Kessler P, Kopp S, Lavand'homme P, Macfarlane A, MacLean C, Mantilla C, McIsaac D, McLawhorn A, Neal JM, Parks M, Parvizi J, Peng P, Pichler L, Poeran J, Poultsides L, Schwenk ES, Sites BD, Stundner O, Sun EC, Viscusi E, Votta-Velis EG, Wu CL, YaDeau J, Sharrock NE.
46(11):971-985.
2022
PROSPECT guidelines for video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: a systematic review and procedure-specific postoperative pain management recommendations
Anaesthesia
Feray S, Lubach J, Joshi GP, Bonnet F, Van de Velde M; PROSPECT Working Group of the European Society of Regional Anaesthesia and Pain Therapy
77(3):311-325.
2021
Opioid-free Anesthesia: Comment
Anesthesiology
Forget P, Mulier J, Lavand'homme P, De Baerdemaeker L, Pelosi P, de Boer HD
135(4):751-753.