Trials / Recruiting
RecruitingNCT06384664
Cryoablation Effects on Acute and Chronic Pain After Thoracotomy and Thoracoscopy
- Status
- Recruiting
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 80 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- University of Michigan · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
The researchers will compare the common methods of post-surgical pain control, such as epidural or intercostal nerve block with a newer method called cryoablation. The research team is conducting this study to determine if cryoablation provides more effective pain control when compared to an epidural or intercostal nerve block.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| DEVICE | Atricure's crysoSPHERE probe | Cryoablation is a procedure that is used to freeze and burn away tissue cells via a device called a cryosphere which emits a freezing gas. |
| PROCEDURE | Standard of Care | An intercostal nerve block involves injecting anesthetic medications into nerves around the thoracic incision to provide temporary longer term pain relief after surgery. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2024-06-03
- Primary completion
- 2027-04-01
- Completion
- 2028-04-01
- First posted
- 2024-04-25
- Last updated
- 2025-08-28
Locations
1 site across 1 country: United States
Regulatory
- FDA-regulated device study
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT06384664. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.