Evaluation of Chronic Pain After Nerve Section During Thoracotomy

Rigshospitalet

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Lung Cancer

Treatments: Procedure: Nerve section

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00653367

RH-EKPF-2008-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to investigate if controlled nerve section reduces chronic pain after thoracotomy.

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients included for anterior or lateral thoracotomy

Exclusion criteria

• Unable to give consent due to age, cognitive reduction or otherwise
• Neurological disease or symptoms affection thoracic area
• Chronic pain prior to surgery
• Inability to supply the patient with an epidural catheter
• Pneumonectomy
• Prolonged infection at surgical site
• Invasive tumor growth
• Need for repeated surgery at site

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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0 participants in 2 patient groups

NS

Experimental group

Description:

Nerve section of intercostal nerve during surgery

Treatment:

Procedure: Nerve section

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Control