opioid free anesthesia with epidural for breast cancer surgery
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: C509- Malignant neoplasm of breast of unspecified site
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2021/04/032930
- Lead Sponsor
- Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
Thirty American Society of Anaesthesiologists physical status II patients between age group18-65 years and posted for breast cancer surgeries for breast cancer surgeries
Exclusion Criteria
Patients not consenting for epidural anaesthesia, anticoagulant drugs, psychiatric illness, allergy to local anaesthetic and local infection were excluded from the study.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The primary objective was to evaluate the efficacy of thoracic epidural anaesthesia in providing complete opioid free surgical anaesthesia and postoperative analgesia for breast cancer surgeries. The efficacy of the anaesthetic will be assessed in terms of total number of cases that need to be converted to general anaesthesia.Timepoint: 20 minutes after epidural bolus administration
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The secondary outcome measures were the time to achieve complete surgical anaesthesia after placement of epidural catheter, haemodynamic instability, amount of ketamine used, pain scores in the postoperative period, patients� and surgeons� satisfaction score.Timepoint: Intraoperative period