NCT00221260

Perioperative Epidural Trial (POET) Pilot Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 250 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of British Columbia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 45 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To investigate if the use of perioperative neuraxial blockade reduces post-operative mortality and cardiorespiratory events compared to intraoperative general anesthesia AND postoperative IV narcotic analgesia. This is a feasibility study to determine if recruitment and execution of the protocol could be done in a timely manner in a much larger trial

Conditions

• Post Operative Pain Control

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	anesthesia	Intraoperative general anesthesia AND postoperative IV narcotic analgesia.

Timeline

• Start date: 2005-09-01
• Primary completion: 2008-01-01
• Completion: 2008-01-01
• First posted: 2005-09-22
• Last updated: 2008-09-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada