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Clinical Trials/NCT03618693
NCT03618693
Completed
Not Applicable

The Impact of Perioperative Analgesia in Prostatectomy Patients on Early Quality of Recovery

Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern1 site in 1 country142 target enrollmentAugust 13, 2018

Overview

Phase
Not Applicable
Intervention
Not specified
Conditions
Prostatectomy
Sponsor
Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern
Enrollment
142
Locations
1
Primary Endpoint
Quality of Recovery
Status
Completed
Last Updated
4 years ago

Overview

Brief Summary

The rationale behind this RCT is to assess within 24 hours after surgery the quality of recovery of prostatectomy patients treated with 3 different analgesia concepts (intraoperative spinal analgesia, transversus abdominis plane block, intravenous lidocaine administration) using the quality of recovery (QoR) 15 questionnaire.

Detailed Description

Prostatectomy (open or robotic assisted) is a major urological surgery, which is associated with relevant acute postoperative pain. Perioperative analgesic techniques aiming at optimizing postoperative analgesia have to be investigated. Optimal postoperative pain management is one of the key factors leading to enhanced recovery after surgery. Optimal analgesia should aim for optimized patient comfort, fast functional recovery with the fewest side effects thus encouraging the DREAMS concept (DRinking, EAting, Mobilizing and Sleeping). The perioperative additional use of a spinal single shot analgesia, or a transversus abdominis plane block to general anaesthesia are validated options to enhance pain therapy compared to systemic analgesia alone. However, if the impact on pain scores has been described previously, the impact on the quality of recovery (QoR) is still unclear. Using the assessment of QoR allows for a much more objective and broader assessment of the quality of the postoperative treatment. Indeed, patient's perioperative experience cannot be only focused on pain scores but should involve items like physical independence, patient support, comfort, emotion. All these items are included in already validated QoR questionnaires like the QoR 15 or QoR 40. The rationale behind this randomized, parallel group, single centre, interventional, active controlled trial is to assess with the QoR 15questionnaire within 24 hours after surgery the quality of recovery of prostatectomy patients treated with 3 different analgesia concepts.

Registry
clinicaltrials.gov
Start Date
August 13, 2018
End Date
December 13, 2021
Last Updated
4 years ago
Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Parallel
Sex
Male

Investigators

Responsible Party
Sponsor

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

  • Informed Consent as documented by signature (Appendix Informed Consent Form)
  • \>18 years old
  • eGFR \>40ml/min
  • Normal liver function
  • Prostatectomy (open, robotic assisted)

Exclusion Criteria

  • Contraindications to the class of drugs under study, e.g. known hypersensitivity or allergy to class of drugs or the investigational product,
  • Patients with regular use of antiemetics, laxatives, opioids or other types of analgesics
  • Known or suspected non-compliance, drug or alcohol abuse,
  • Inability to follow the procedures of the study, e.g. due to language problems, psychological disorders, dementia, etc. of the participant,
  • Participation in another study with investigational drug within the 30 days preceding and during the present study,
  • Previous enrolment into the current study,
  • Enrolment of the investigator, his/her family members, employees and other dependent persons,
  • Severe psychiatric disorder
  • Patients with chronic pain
  • Preoperative regular use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Quality of Recovery

Time Frame: From preoperative to postoperative day (POD) 1 i.e. within 24 hours after initiation of intervention

Changes in Quality of Recovery using the validated 15 items quality of recovery (QoR-15) score : QoR is a patient reported outcome short questionnaire that measure the quality of recovery after surgery and anaesthesia. It incorporates 5 dimensions of health (patient support, comfort, emotions, physical independence, pain). This is a shortened validated version of the QoR 40 including 15 items. QoR-15, with a score range from 0 to 150, is easy to perform. Recently a meta-analysis showed that QoR 15 fulfils requirements for outcome measurement instruments.

Secondary Outcomes

  • Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting (PONV)(during the first 48 hours postoperatively)
  • Pain Score(within 6 hours postoperatively, on POD 1 and 2)
  • Gastrointestinal Function(During length of stay, expected to be on average 5 to 7 days)
  • Opioid Consumption(Within the first 48 hours postoperatively)

Study Sites (1)

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