NCT03198338

Ultrasound Guided Transversus Abdominis Plane(TAP) Block in Intensive Care Unit

Ultrasound Guided Transversus Abdominis Plane(TAP) Block in Intensive Care Unit(ICU) for Postoperative Analgesia After Open Colon Resection: a Double Blind Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 46 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Seoul National University Bundang Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The Transversus Abdominis Block (TAP) block is known to be an effective means of reducing patient pain after abdominal surgery. In the meantime, the general TAP block has been studied in patients who were in the recovery room and the ward after surgery. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of pain reduction and opioid saving effects in patients with TAP block in ICU settings.

Detailed description

This study is a prospective study in a single institute of Seoul National University Bundang Hospital and is assigned to the test group and the control group by random assignment. In both groups, PCA (Patient Controlled Analgesia) was used as a post-operative pain control modality. In the Intervention group, a 0.25% Bupivacaine was used for transverse nerve block , and normal saline was used for placebo(control) group The TAP block will be performed within 1 hour after entering the intensive care unit (ICU) in double blinded state

Conditions

• Colon Neoplasm
• Rectum Neoplasm
• Perforated Colon
• Perforated Bowel

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	0.25% Bupivacaine, 0.5mL/kg	Ultrasound guided TAP block using 0.25% Bupivacaine, 0.5ml/kg
DRUG	Normal Saline	0.9% Normal Saline
DEVICE	Ultrasound	Ultrasound guided TAP block

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-07-01
• Primary completion: 2017-12-31
• Completion: 2017-12-31
• First posted: 2017-06-26
• Last updated: 2017-06-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: South Korea