Pain control after chest injury
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: O- Medical and Surgical
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2024/01/061043
- Lead Sponsor
- All India Institute of Medical Science, Bhubaneswar
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
All patients with chest trauma and Intercostal chest tube drain in situ
Exclusion Criteria
-Prior involvement in other studies.
-Known allergy to Ropivacaine or hypersensitivity reaction detected after test dose
-Patients who are suffering from Cardiac and respiratory disorders.
-Patients not able to understand the nature of the study
-Patients with bilateral chest trauma,flail chest,patients needing ventilatory support, surgical intervention(thoracotomy),pre-existing pulmonary disease, associated abdominal/brain/spine injury.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Pain measured by VAS scoreTimepoint: Pain measured by VAS score 12 hourly till the discharge of patient from hospital.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method -Total rescue analgesics needed postprocedure. <br/ ><br>-Complications post procedure. <br/ ><br>-VAS at 30 days post procedure.Timepoint: -Measuring the total amount of rescue analgesics in 72 hours post procedure. <br/ ><br>-VAS score at 30 days post injury. <br/ ><br>-Complications related to the procedures. <br/ ><br>-Pulmonary complications upto 30 days. <br/ ><br>