Comparison of Continuous Wound Catheter Infusion Versus Continuous Epidural Infusion in Abdominal Surgery

Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh

Status: Completed

Conditions: Upper Midline Incision; Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery; Post-operative Analgesia; Wound Infusion Catheter

Treatments: Other: Wound catheter infusion; Other: Epidural infusion

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02782767

MDTG105

Details and patient eligibility

About

Comparison of efficacy in management of pain in abdominal surgery between epidural versus wound infusion catheter {catheter placed within the incision site}

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• ASA PS I-III , undergoing upper gastrointestinal surgery involving upper midline incision

Exclusion criteria

• Refusal to give consent.
• Contraindication to epidural analgesia (e.g.localized sepsis , Raised ICP , Myelopathy , Peripheral neuropathy ,Inherited coagulopathy)
• Addiction to opioids, or alcohol, or history of any other substance abuse.
• Allergy to local anaesthetic drugs.
• Pregnancy.
• Inability to communicate (e.g. known psychiatric disorders)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Epidural catheter infusion

Active Comparator group

Description:

epidural catheter in the thoracic vertebra level to provide local anesthetic infusion

Treatment:

Other: Epidural infusion

Wound catheter infusion

Experimental group

Description:

A multiorificed wound infusion catheter kept within the incision site to provide continuous local anesthetic infusion

Treatment:

Other: Wound catheter infusion