Efficacy of Ultrasound-assisted Caudal Epidural Pulsed Radiofrequency for Anal Pain in Cancer Patients,

Assiut University

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Perineal Pain

Treatments: Procedure: US assisted caudal epidural pulsed radiofrequency

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06008899

629

Details and patient eligibility

About

Our primary goal will be to investigate the analgesic efficacy of ultrasound (US)-assisted caudal epidural PRF (pulsed radiofrequency)( stimulation in patients with perineal or anal pain cancer patients using (visual analog scale (VAS) scores from 0 to 10 at the baseline (pretreatment), two, four, and eight weeks; secondary outcomes will be the effects on opioid use and total opioid use in the 24 h, quality of life, patient satisfaction and opioid and intervention related side effects.

Enrollment: 40 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• American Society of Anesthesiology physical status of I or III (ASA), of both sex
• cancer-related anal or perineal pain

Exclusion criteria

• coagulopathies
• allergies to the contrast dye
• patients with moderate or significant cardiac/respiratory disease or hepatic

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

ultrasound (US) assisted caudal epidural pulsed radiofrequency

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Procedure: US assisted caudal epidural pulsed radiofrequency

conventional medical treatment

No Intervention group