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Pain after hepatectomy can interfere with the patients' recovery and may contribute to developing long term pain. Opioids, e.g. morphine, fentanyl, sufentanil, works well for postoperative analgesia, but have several side effects such as nausea, vomiting and itching which may be severe enough to affect patients' recovery. In some cases, opioids may cause constipation and urinary retention within the first 24 hours after surgery. Thus, several ultrasound-guided nerve block procedures have been applied to provide postoperative analgesia. Ultrasound-guided thoracic paravertebral block (TPVB) is one of the most used nerve block methods using for post-hepatectomy analgesia. However, in some cases, ultrasound-guided TPVB can cause pneumothorax, hemopneumothorax, and higher block level. The quadratus lumborum block (QLB) is a new developed nerve block which can provide a widespread analgesic effect from T7 to L1. Therefore, this study is to determine whether QLB or TPVB have a better pain control with fewer side effects and complications after laparoscopic and open hepatectomy. The adequate pain control will be assessed by their visual analogue score (VAS) and the postoperative quality of recovery scale (QoR-15, Chinese Version). Additionally, the side effect and complications profile of these two nerve block techniques will also be recorded and compared.


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NCT number NCT03540537
Study type Interventional
Source Nanfang Hospital of Southern Medical University
Contact Junyun Fan, Bachelor
Phone 0086-15920091179
Email 381774142@qq.com
Status Recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date May 9, 2018
Completion date December 31, 2020

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