Analgesia iv vs Epidural Analgesia vs Port-sites Infiltration After Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy

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

Summary

A prospective randomized study of patients undergoing laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy between 2012 and 2015 will be performed. Patients will be divided into 3 groups: Analgesia iv exclusively (Group 1), epidural analgesia+analgesia iv (Group 2) and port-sites infiltration+analgesia iv (Group 3). Pain will be quantified by means of a Visual Analogic Scale and morphine rescue needs were determined 24 hours after surgery.

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Hospital General Universitario Elche
• Treatments: Acetaminophen; Bupivacaine; Dipyrone; Levobupivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• body mass index (BMI) >40 Kg/m2

• BMI > 35 Kg/m2 with the presence of comorbidities associated to obesity

Exclusion Criteria:

• patients undergoing other bariatric techniques

• severe underlying cardiovascular diseases

• chronic renal failure

• hepatic dysfunction

• previous foregut surgery

• patients with any contraindication for bariatric surgery