Added Value of Local Clonidine for Spine Postoperative Pain Control, in Addition to Bupivacaine

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2015-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The objective of this prospective randomized double-blind study is to evaluate the added analgesic value of clonidine to the conventional local bupivacaine wound infiltration in posterior spine surgery.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: St Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon
• Treatments: Bupivacaine; Clonidine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• First (not recurrent) posterior spinal surgery at the operated site

• American Society of Anesthesiologists class I or II (operative risk)

Exclusion Criteria:

• Allergy to local anesthetics or to clonidine

• Pregnancy

• Raynaud's syndrome

• Thromboangiitis obliterans

• History of substance abuse

• Current treatment with corticosteroids