NCT02916381

The Analgesic Efficacy of the Pectoral Block After Mastectomy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Unilateral mastectomy is associated with moderate to severe postoperative pain. A new regional anaesthetic technique has been recently described, call the PEC block. This technique consists of injecting local anaesthetic between different muscles of the chest in order to relieve postoperative pain. The investigators aim to verify that this technique has a clinical relevant postoperative analgesic effect. For that purpose, the investigators will randomise 50 patients scheduled to undergo unilateral mastectomy into two groups: one group will receive a PEC block after the induction of the general anaesthesia under ultrasound guidance, while the other group will not have this regional procedure.

Conditions

• Analgesia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	PEC block + General anaesthesia	Patients will receive an ultrasound-guided PEC block after the induction of general anaesthesia.
PROCEDURE	General anaesthesia

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-01-01
• Primary completion: 2018-10-01
• Completion: 2019-04-01
• First posted: 2016-09-27
• Last updated: 2019-06-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland