Does ESPB Improve Postoperative Quality of Recovery After VATS

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2019-11-14
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS) is a minimally invasive surgery. Despite reduced surgical trauma compared to the traditional thoracotomy approach, pain control after VATS remains challenging. Regional analgesia may be a crucial component of multimodal postoperative pain management. The use of nerve blocks, such as the recently described erector spinae plane block (ESPB) has been shown in case reports to reduce pain and thus has the potential to improve patient recovery. This study aims to test the hypothesis that ultrasound-guided SPB would improve the quality of recovery after VATS by reducing acute postsurgical pain.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Fujian Provincial Hospital
• Treatments: Ropivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• American Society of Anesthesiologists' physical status class of I or II

• scheduled for elective VATS

Exclusion Criteria:

• a history of allergy to local anesthetics

• known coagulation disorders

• infection near the puncture site

• chronic opioid use

• inability to communicate,

• other reasons that not appropriate for this study.