Postoperative Pain and SIRS After Preoperative Analgesia With Clonidine or Levobupivacaine (PPSAPACL)

University Hospital Dubrava

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 4

Conditions: Analgesia; Pain; Systemic Inflammatory Stress Response

Treatments: Drug: clonidine, levobupivacaine

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00860899

1860

1861

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study was to investigate hypothesis that preoperative administration of epidural clonidine will reduce postoperative pain and systemic inflammatory stress response better than epidural levobupivacaine.

Full description

Investigations showed that upregulation of prostaglandin E2 and interleukin-6 at central sites is an important component of surgery induced inflammatory response in patients. Postoperative period is associated with an increased production of cytokines, which augment pain sensitivity. With adequate perioperative pain control it is possible to control central and peripheral inflammatory response to surgery, and influence on patient outcomes. Use of analgetics before the pain stimulus (preventive analgesia) prevent development of neuroplastic changes in central nervous system, and reduces pain. Clonidine is an alpha2-adrenergic agonist with sedative, analgesic and hemodynamic properties. It inhibits transmission of nociceptive stimuli in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord, acting on the inhibitory descending pathways. According to recent experimental investigations clonidine lowers proinflammatory cytokine level, and prevents hypersensitization acting through adrenoreceptors alpha-2A.

Levobupivacaine is a long-acting local anesthetic, S-enantiomer of bupivacaine, with identical anesthetic potency. When administered intraperitoneally or by local infiltration of operation site, levobupivacaine produced analgesia and reduction of proinflammatory cytokines. Investigations of epidural and intrathecal levobupivacaine provide evidence for improved postoperative analgesia with reduced analgesic consumption. But, it remains unknown if that analgesia is sufficient enough to blockade inflammatory stress response during perioperative time.We want to investigate and compare analgesic and immunomodulation efficacy of this two frequently used analgesics.

Enrollment: 42 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 42 to 77 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• colorectal resection surgery patients
• preoperative risk of anesthesia and operation, ASA (American Society of Anesthesiologists) physical status I or II

Exclusion criteria

• diabetes mellitus
• renal insufficiency
• liver insufficiency
• autoimmune disease
• corticosteroid and immunosuppressive use
• operation time exceeding six hours

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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42 participants in 2 patient groups

clonidine

Active Comparator group

Description:

Clonidine is an alpha2-adrenergic agonist with sedative, analgesic and hemodynamic properties. It inhibits transmission of nociceptive stimuli in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord, acting on the inhibitory descending pathways.

Treatment:

Drug: clonidine, levobupivacaine

levobupivacaine

Active Comparator group

Description:

Levobupivacaine is long-acting local anesthetic, S-enantiomer of bupivacaine, with identical anesthetic potency.

Treatment:

Drug: clonidine, levobupivacaine