The CHAmPION Trial - A comparison of two types of regional anaesthesia for post-operative pain in patients having hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery
- Conditions
- Surgery - Other surgeryPost-operative painHepatobiliary surgeryPancreatic surgeryAnaesthesiology - Pain management
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12617001018303
- Lead Sponsor
- Dr Helen Lindsay
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Suspended
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 100
Patients undergoing open hepatobiliary and/or pancreatic surgery at Auckland City Hospital
1) Contraindication to spinal block at the discretion of the treating anaesthetist, including coagulopathy (INR >/= 1.4 or platelets < 80 x 10^9/L) or abnormality precluding spinal block
2) Inability to identify with ultrasound the appropriate tissue planes for safe regional catheter placement
3) Patient refusal
4) Objection of the treating anaesthetist or surgeon for the patient to be enrolled into the study
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method