Thoracic Epidural Analgesia in Flail Chest

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2018-07-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The applicability of different thoracic epidural analgesia for patients with flail chest

• Phase: Phase 2/Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Assiut University
• Treatments: Morphine; Triamcinolone; Triamcinolone Acetonide; Triamcinolone diacetate; Triamcinolone hexacetonide

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Older than 18 years.

• American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status 1 or 2.

• mentally competent and able to give consent for enrollment in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patient refusal.

• Psychiatric disorder

• Patient younger than 18 years old

• Allergy to local anesthetics, systemic opioids (fentanyl, morphine)

• Impaired kidney functions and patient with coagulopathy will be also excluded.

• Chronic pain syndromes and patients with chronic opioid use defined as use of regular daily doses of systemic narcotics for the past 6 months prior to the surgery.

• BMI of 40 or more