The Effect of Thoracal Paravertebral Block on Seroma Reduction in Breast Surgery

Kocaeli University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Breast Cancer; Seroma

Treatments: Procedure: Thoracal paravertebral block

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03650868

KIA 2018/155

Details and patient eligibility

About

Thoracal paravertebral block (TPVB) is a commonly prefferred regional anesthesia technique to provide postoperative analgesia. In addition, the successful use of TPVB is reported for some seroma related pain cases. Postoperative analgesia in breast surgery is a difficult and overworked issue due to etensive surgery and complex innervation of the breast and in addition to this complex mechanisms, seroma accumulation has a negative effect for patients postoperatively. With this study, the investigators aimed to study the effect of TPVB on seroma reduction for breast cancer surgery.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18-70 years of agge
• ASA I-II
• Undergoing elective breast cancer surgery

Exclusion criteria

• obesity (body mass index >35 kg/m2)
• infection of the skin at the site of needle puncture area
• patients with known allergies to any of the study drugs
• coagulopathy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention will be applied to control group

TPVB group

Experimental group

Description:

Thoracal paravertebral block will be performed with 20cc of 0,25% bupivacaine preoperatively.

Treatment:

Procedure: Thoracal paravertebral block