Ultrasound Paravertebral Block in Breast Surgery.

Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome

Status: Completed

Conditions: Breast Cancer

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01818817

CarGal2

TPVB (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpouse of the study is to determine wether Ultrasound Guided,Ens-assisted paravertebral block with single shot is a safe and reliable anesthetic technique in breast surgery.

Full description

General anaesthesia is currently the conventional technique used for breast surgery. Thoracic Paravertebral block (PVB) has been used with multiple injection.

We compared a single injection thoracic PVB with general anaesthesia (GA) in 20 consenting patients, scheduled for unilateral breast surgery.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• American Society of Anesthesiologists classification I-III
• Written informed consent
• Age older than 18 years old

Exclusion criteria

• allergy to local anesthetics
• local sepsis

Trial design

20 participants in 2 patient groups

TPVB group

Description:

In this group of patients thoracic paravertebral block is performed.

GA group

Description:

In this group of patients general anesthesia is performed.