Paravertebral nerve blocks for analgesia after cardiac surgery
Completed
- Conditions
- Postoperative painSigns and Symptoms
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN13424423
- Lead Sponsor
- Imperial College Healthcare
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- 50
Inclusion Criteria
1. Age 40-70 years
2. Undergoing elective and urgent first time coronary bypass surgery
Exclusion Criteria
1. Critical preoperative state
2. Single graft surgery (no leg incision)
3. Minimally invasive surgery (no sternotomy)
4. Significant renal disease (baseline creatinine >150 micromolar: morphine contraindicated)
5. Patients exceeding 110kg (4% of our operative population practical difficulties of positioning unconscious patients to place the block)
6. Pregnancy
7. Patients with chronic pain taking regular analgesic medication
8. Patients with a significant abnormality of coagulation
9. Participation in another interventional study
10. Patients unable to give informed consent
11. Hypersensitivity to lidocaine
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Morphine consumption using a PCA device
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Pain (measured using ordinal scale) and respiratory function (PEFR) for first 7 days<br>2. Quality of life, measured using the EuroQol EQ-5D questionnaire at 3 months