NCT06008899

Efficacy of Ultrasound-assisted Caudal Epidural Pulsed Radiofrequency for Anal Pain in Cancer Patients,

Efficacy of Ultrasound-assisted Caudal Epidural Pulsed Radiofrequency for Anal and Perineal Pain in Cancer Patients, a Prospective Randomized Clinical Study

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Assiut University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Our primary goal will be to investigate the analgesic efficacy of ultrasound (US)-assisted caudal epidural PRF (pulsed radiofrequency)( stimulation in patients with perineal or anal pain cancer patients using (visual analog scale (VAS) scores from 0 to 10 at the baseline (pretreatment), two, four, and eight weeks; secondary outcomes will be the effects on opioid use and total opioid use in the 24 h, quality of life, patient satisfaction and opioid and intervention related side effects.

Conditions

• Perineal Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	US assisted caudal epidural pulsed radiofrequency	patients will receive US assisted caudal epidural pulsed radiofrequency and followed up to 8 weeks

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-08-25
• Primary completion: 2024-12-01
• Completion: 2025-01-01
• First posted: 2023-08-24
• Last updated: 2024-08-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt