Ropivacaine After Sternotomy

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2017-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Continuous ropivacaine infusion to sternotomy wound after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) or heart valve surgery to diminish postoperative pain.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Kuopio University Hospital
• Treatments: Ropivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Elective CABG or heart valve surgery patients

Exclusion Criteria:

• Psychic disorders

• Sleep apnea syndrome

• Diabetes mellitus (insulin dependent)

• Obesity, body mass index (BMI) ≥ 35

• Cardiac insufficiency, ejection fraction (EF) ≤ 30