Ideal Initial Bolus and Infusion Rate for Erector Spinae Plane Block Catheters

• Status: Withdrawn
• Trial end date: 2020-09-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This study would like to identify the best starting dose and infusion rate for nerve blocks and nerve catheters related to the erector spinae plane block that can improve functional status and pain control on cardiac surgery patients and minimize the necessity for opioid pain control using a continuous reassessment model.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Virginia Commonwealth University
• Treatments: Pharmaceutical Solutions; Ropivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• patients undergoing planned thoracotomies and sternotomies for cardiothoracic surgery who will be taken to the cardiac surgery ICU postoperatively

Exclusion Criteria:

• BMI >40

• infection at the proposed catheter site

• ongoing sepsis/bacteremia

• patient unable to sit up for the procedure

• patients requiring significant vasopressor support (>1 vasopressor)

• patient refusal

• less than 18 years of age (they are managed in the pediatric ICU rather than the Cardiac Surgery ICU)