Chronic Pain After Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS) Surgery for Pneumothorax

Rigshospitalet

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Pneumothorax

Treatments: Device: 10mm videoscope; Device: 5mm videoscope

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00969423

H-A-2009-054

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study will investigate characteristics of chronic pain after VATS surgery with two different sizes of videoscopic equipment.

Enrollment: 10 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 40 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• PSP
• Able to understand and give consent
• Can read
• Residing in Denmark

Exclusion criteria

• Unable to understand the written information in Danish
• Abuse (Medicine, Drugs, Alcohol)
• Severe psychiatric Illness
• Conflicting neurological disease
• Conversion to open surgery
• Use of neuroaxial analgesia
• Use of electric cauterizer necessitated
• Additional thoracic surgery in the investigation period

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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10 participants in 2 patient groups

5 mm equipment

Experimental group

Description:

5 mm videoscopic equipment

Treatment:

Device: 5mm videoscope

10 mm

Experimental group

Description:

Use of standard 10 mm VATS equipment

Treatment:

Device: 10mm videoscope