Effects of Thoracic Erector Spinae Plane Blockade on Acute and Chronic Pain After Video Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS)

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2021-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This is a prospective randomized study intended to assess the efficacy of erector spinae plane analgesia on acute and chronic postoperative pain for VATS procedures. It will include 72 patients presenting to Severance hospital for a VATS procedure. Patients will be randomized 1:1 to receive either ESP block and intravenous patient-controlled analgesia (IV PCA) or IV PCA only. Ropivacaine will be used in nerve block, and injected at the end of surgery. The primary outcome will be to compare analgesic efficacy between the two groups as defined by immediate postoperative pain scores on the numeric pain rating scale. Secondary outcomes include total opioid consumption, painDETECT score, and chronic pain scores.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Yonsei University

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Male and Female participants providing written informed consent,

2. ASA grade 1-3,

3. aged over 20 and under 80,

4. primary lung cancer participants scheduled segmentectomy or lobectomy c MLND,

5. undergoing a VATS procedure under General Anaesthesia

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Absence of informed written consent,

2. chemotherapy before or after surgery,

3. pre existing infection at block site,

4. severe coagulopathy,

5. pre existing neurological deficit,

6. previous history of opiate abuse,

7. pregnancy,

8. pre existing chronic pain condition,