Local Anesthetic for Total Mastectomy Surgery

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2016-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

Pain following mastectomy surgery for breast cancer can be significant. Poorly managed pain in the immediate time-period following surgery can potentially lead to long-term (chronic) pain conditions. There is still a need to find the safest, least invasive, and most effective method to manage this pain. The investigators believe that a new technique of injecting local anesthesia (freezing) in to specific areas at the end of mastectomy surgery may be a very important step to managing pain after breast surgery. The investigators would like to begin by performing a pilot study, meaning the investigators will perform the technique in patients and compare what their pain outcomes are to patients who have not had the technique.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University Health Network, Toronto
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Anesthetics, Local

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Undergoing elective or urgent, primary, unilateral mastectomy with or without axillary lymph node dissection

• ASA-PS I-III

• 18-85 years of age, inclusive

• 50-100 kg, inclusive

• BMI 18 - 40

Exclusion Criteria:

• Bilateral mastectomy surgery

• Revision mastectomy surgery

• Inability or refusal to provide informed consent

• Chronic pain state

• Neuropathic pain

• Opioid dependence

• Allergy to local anesthesia

• Allergy to opioids