Effects of Systemic Lidocaine on Postoperative Quality of Recovery After Robot-assisted Thyroidectomy

Yonsei University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Thyroid Cancer

Treatments: Drug: normal saline infusion; Drug: Systemic intravenous lidocaine infusion

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01907997

4-2013-0342

Details and patient eligibility

About

Systemic lidocaine infusion may improve the patients' recovery quality and chronic post surgical pain after robot-assisted thyroidectomy

Enrollment: 90 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age between 20-65
• ASA class I and II
• Thyroid cancer patients who are scheduled for elective robot-assisted thyroidectomy

Exclusion criteria

• Allergy to local anesthetics or contraindication to use of lidocaine
• Pregnancy
• Severe cardiovascular disease
• Renal failure
• Liver failure
• Neurologic and psychologic disease
• Chronic treatment with analgesics

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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90 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Group L

Experimental group

Description:

Intravenous lidocaine infusion group

Treatment:

Drug: Systemic intravenous lidocaine infusion

Group C

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Intravenous normal saline infusion - control group

Treatment:

Drug: normal saline infusion