Is PECS Block Equivalent to Paravertebral Block in Preventing Postoperative Pain After Breast Surgery?

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2021-03-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

Two regional anesthesia techniques already in use in common clinical practice -paravertebral block and pectoral nerve block (PECS block) are compared in a randomized, double-blind, multicenter, controlled, non-inferiority trial, in order to compare their success rate in patients udergoing breast surgery.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Ospedale Regionale Bellinzona e Valli
• Treatments: Ropivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• adult patients

• ASA class 1 to 3 patients

• patients scheduled for elective breast mastectomy or quadrantectomy

Exclusion Criteria:

• patients' refusal

• contraindication to regional anaesthesia (coagulopathies, concurrent anticoagulant therapy, allergy to local anaesthetics, infection at puncture site)