Long Thoracic Nerve Blockade for Pain Treatment After Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery

Bursa Yüksek İhtisas Education and Research Hospital

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Nerve Block; Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

Treatments: Drug: Bupivacaine; Drug: Morphine Sulfate

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03483415

2011-KAEK-25 2018/02-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) provides an opportunity to penetrate the thoracic cavity by video through an incision into the chest wall and facilitate surgical operation of lung pathologies.Various regional methods of anesthesia are currently being used to achieve this goal.

The aim of the study was to assess the effectiveness of Long thoracic nerve bloc on postoperative VATS analgesia.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients who were in the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) I-III class and underwent video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS).

Exclusion criteria

• Previous history of opioid use preoperatively,
• Allergy to local anesthetics,
• The presence of any systemic infection,
• Uncontrolled arterial hypertension,
• Uncontrolled diabetes mellitus.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Grup L

Experimental group

Description:

IV patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) morphine + Ultrasound guided Long thoracic nerve blockage with 5 ml % 0.25 bupivacaine

Treatment:

Drug: Morphine Sulfate

Drug: Bupivacaine

Group P

Active Comparator group

Description:

IV patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) morphine

Treatment:

Drug: Morphine Sulfate