PATHOS Study Pain Assessment in Thoracic Oncologic Surgery

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2019-06-04
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

A randomized prospective trial to assess whether the use of loco regional anesthesia as adjuvant analgesic therapy is more effective of intravenous analgesia only.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria di Negrar; Sacro Cuore Don Calabria General Hospital
• Treatments: Ropivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Lobectomy/ Segmentectomy plus lymphadenectomy (systematic or sampling) for cancer (not necessarily NSCLC) performed with a standardized, three portal minimally invasive approach.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients who are pregnant or lactating

• Morbid obesity (BMI > 35 )

• Inability to understand and sign the Informed consent

• Proven allergy to local anesthetic drugs as required by this protocol

• Patients under chronic analgesics or neuroleptic therapy for any reason and/ or with baseline pain score (NRS scale) of 3 or more.