Analgesic Effect of Intravenous Patient-Controlled Analgesia (IV PCA) Versus Paravertebral Block After Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS)

Seoul National University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Postoperative Pain After Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery

Treatments: Procedure: PCA; Procedure: paravertebral block

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01538914

JHBahk_VATS PVB

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to compare the analgesic effect of paravertebral block with that of intravenous patient-controlled analgesia after video assisted thoracic surgery.

Enrollment: 76 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients receiving video assisted thoracic surgery

Exclusion criteria

• patients with cardiovascular disease
• patients with neurologic disease
• patients with contraindications to paravertebral block or epidural block
• patients with history of previous VATS
• patients with pain at the expected incision site

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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76 participants in 2 patient groups

PVB

Experimental group

Description:

Postoperative pain is controlled with local analgesics delivered via PVB.

Treatment:

Procedure: paravertebral block

PCA

Active Comparator group

Description:

Postoperatve pain is controlled with intravenous PCA.

Treatment:

Procedure: PCA