Intermittent versus continuous local anesthetics administration in postoperative paravertebral block for patients undergoing video assisted thoracic surgery: a double blinded randomized controlled trial
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Diseases which need video assisted thoracic surgery under general anesthesia
- Registration Number
- JPRN-UMIN000030174
- Lead Sponsor
- Dept. of Anesthesiology, Wakayama Medical University
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete: follow-up complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 26
Inclusion Criteria
Not provided
Exclusion Criteria
1. Patients who will undergo emergency surgery 2. Patients whose serum free local anesthetic concentration can easily be increased. 3. Patients whose paravertebral catheter is difficult to be inserted or to be confirmed the right position. 4. Patients who are inappropriate to be administered contrast medium. 5. Patients who cannot be interviewed after surgery 6. Patients who have allergy to drugs included in the study 7. Patients who suffered from unexpected complications of the surgery or anesthesia 8. Patients who are planned to be sedated after surgery
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Cumulative dose of local anesthetics during postoperative 48 hours
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1) Mean score of visual analogue scale (VAS) for pain during postoperative 6 hours 2) Satisfaction scores on VAS for postoperative 24 hours 3) Percentage of the patients showed signs or symptoms of local anesthetic toxicity