Longterm Postoperative Analgesia, Intravenous Lidocaine Infusion

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2016-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Spinal fusion is a painful surgery, and control of postoperative pain is difficult. Several studies have indicated that appropriate pain treatment protocols reduce postoperative morbidity, improve the results of the surgery, and decrease hospital costs

• Phase: Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Abdelrady S Ibrahim, MD
• Treatments: Lidocaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Age > 18 years American Society of Anesthesiologists 1-3 status Patients undergoing spinal fusion or fixation

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Previous spinal fusion surgery.

2. Morbid obesity (BMI > 40)

3. Diagnosis of spinal metastatic cancer

4. Allergy to an amide local anesthetic or morphine sulfate

5. History of renal dysfunction, liver dysfunction or congestive heart failure

6. History of substance abuse disorder.

7. Chronic opioid use.