Local Anaesthesia Used During Fast-track Colonic Surgery: Evaluation of Bupivacaine and Levobupivacaine in Practice

Martini Hospital Groningen

Status: Completed

Conditions: Post-operative Pain; Local Anesthesia; Colonic Diseases

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01105442

METC2010-18

Details and patient eligibility

About

The standard treatment for post operative pain is now bupivacaine + sufentanil. The use of this combination during fast-track colonic surgery leads frequently to post-operative nausea and vomiting and limited mobilisation possibilities. Therefore the department anaesthesiology wants to evaluate the use of a different local anaesthetic: levobupivacaine combined with morphine on demand. The expectation is that the use of levobupivacaine leads to less side effects.

Enrollment: 14 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients who undergo fast-track colonic surgery and with post operative epidural pain treatment

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who are admitted to an other ward
• Patients with a spinal catheter

Trial design

14 participants in 2 patient groups

Bupivacaine

Description:

Patients who received bupivacaine + sufentanil

Levobupivacaine

Description:

Patients who received levobupivacaine and morphine on demand