NCT01758809

Pain Control of Thoracoscopic Major Pulmonary Resection

Pain Control of Thoracoscopic Major Pulmonary Resection: Is Pre-emptive Local Bupivacaine Injection Able to Replace the Intravenous Patient Controlled Analgesia?

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 86 (actual)
• Sponsor: Seoul National University Bundang Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether pre-emptive local bupivacaine injection is a better alternative pain control modality than the conventional intravenous patient controlled analgesia.

Detailed description

Despite less postoperative pain from Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS) than thoracotomy, pain is still an important issue in its recovery period. After VATS procedure, intravenous patient controlled analgesia (IV PCA) is being used for pain control. However, the side effects of IV PCA are nausea, vomiting, sleepiness, and urination difficulty which interrupt the early recovery. It is established that pre-emptive local bupivacaine injection is more economical, has almost no side effects, and finally, it is effective for the postoperative 24 hours. The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether pre-emptive local bupivacaine injection is a better alternative pain control modality than the conventional intravenous patient controlled analgesia.

Conditions

• Postoperative Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Pre-emptive bupivacaine wound infiltration	Pre-emptive bupivacaine wound infiltration
PROCEDURE	intravenous patient controlled analgesia	postoperative pain control with intravenous patient controlled analgesia

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-12-01
• Primary completion: 2011-09-01
• Completion: 2011-11-01
• First posted: 2013-01-01
• Last updated: 2013-01-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: South Korea