Procedures of Locoregional Analgesia and Quality of Life in Palliative Care Units

• Status: Suspended
• Trial end date: 2015-10-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Number of patients in mobile palliative care units have pain of both nociceptive and neuropathic origin. In certain cases, procedures of locoregional analgesia can be helpful.

The Purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of techniques of locoregional analgesia in a palliative population

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University Hospital, Limoges
• Treatments: Analgesics, Opioid

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patient ≥ 18 years-old, male or female, whatever his/her ethnic group

• Patient with untreatable cancer

• Patient hospitalized in a palliative care unit, with a life expectancy ≥ 1 week

• Pain unresponsive to conventional treatments

• Effectiveness of the injection test

• Signed informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients > 18 years-old

• Patients with pain other than cancer pain

• Patient's refusal

• Coagulation disorders

• Local infection

• Known hypersensitivity to local analgesics

• Inefficacy of the injection test.

• Contraindication for analgesics