The Effect of Phrenic Nerve Block on Postoperative Shoulder Pain in Patients for Liver Resection.

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2017-04-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The aim of this study is to explore whether the use of ultrasound guided phrenic nerve block can reduce the postoperative pain in the shoulder after liver resection. The intervention is directed postoperative to the patients experiencing novel right sided shoulder pain.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Eske Kvanner Aasvang
• Treatments: Ropivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age above 18.

• Patients scheduled for liver resection.

• Ability to give informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Participation in another clinical trial, dealing with pain or management of pain, which could affect this trial, evaluated by the investigator.

• Inability to talk and understand danish

• Drug or alcohol abuse

• Pregnancy

• Congestive heart failure (NYHA class III-IV), or other serious heart disease.

• Chronic obstructive lung disease, moderate or severe degree, or other significant lung disease

• Chronic or acute shoulder pain prior to surgery.

• Body Mass Index above 35.

• Infection at the site of the injection

• Allergy to ropivacaine

Postoperative:

• Shoulder pain score < 6 assessed on the numeric rating scale (0-10), 15 minutes after arrival in postanaesthetic care unit (PA CU).

• Insufficient epidural analgesia, or lack of epidural analgesia.

• Inability to visualize nervus phrenicus with sonography.

• Cerebral confusion, postoperative delirium or other medical condition hindering study intervention.

• Presence of an investigator with intervention competence is not available.