Trial Information
Post Thoracotomy Pain After Nerve Section
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients included for anterior or lateral thoracotomy
Exclusion Criteria:
- Unable to give consent due to age, cognitive reduction or otherwise
- Neurological disease or symptoms affection thoracic area
- Chronic pain prior to surgery
- Inability to supply the patient with an epidural catheter
- Pneumonectomy
- Prolonged infection at surgical site
- Invasive tumor growth
- Need for repeated surgery at site
Type of Study:
Interventional
Study Design:
Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Prevention
Outcome Measure:
Pain (NRS)
Outcome Time Frame:
3 months postoperatively
Safety Issue:
No
Principal Investigator
Kim Wildgaard, MD
Investigator Role:
Principal Investigator
Investigator Affiliation:
Section for Surgical Pathophysiology 4074
Authority:
Denmark: National Board of Health
Study ID:
RH-EKPF-2008-01
NCT ID:
NCT00653367
Start Date:
December 2011
Completion Date:
December 2012
Related Keywords:
- Lung Cancer
- Thoracotomy
- Nerve section
- QST
- Quantitative Sensory Test
- Muscle sparing Posterolateral thoracotomy
- Chest
- Wall
- Surgical
- Incision
- Tumors or cancer of the lung
- Lung Neoplasms