Analgesic Effect of Intravenous Patient-Controlled Analgesia (IV PCA) Versus Paravertebral Block After Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS)

Postoperative Pain After Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery Clinical Trial

Official title:

A Comparison Between the Analgesic Effect of Intravenous Patient-controlled Analgesia and of Paravertebral Block After Video Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01538914
• Other study ID #: JHBahk_VATS PVB
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: February 16, 2012
• Last updated: April 19, 2016
• Start date: February 2013
• Est. completion date: October 2015

Study information

• Verified date: April 2016
• Source: Seoul National University Hospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Korea: Food and Drug Administration
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to compare the analgesic effect of paravertebral block with that of intravenous patient-controlled analgesia after video assisted thoracic surgery.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 76
• Est. completion date: October 2015
• Est. primary completion date: February 2015
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 20 Years to 70 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• patients receiving video assisted thoracic surgery

Exclusion Criteria:

• patients with cardiovascular disease

• patients with neurologic disease

• patients with contraindications to paravertebral block or epidural block

• patients with history of previous VATS

• patients with pain at the expected incision site

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Pain, Postoperative
• Postoperative Pain After Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery

Intervention

Procedure:
• paravertebral block
Postoperative pain is controlled with local analgesics via PVB.
• PCA
Postoperative pain is controlled with intravenous PCA.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Korea, Republic of	Seoul National University Hospital	Seoul

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Seoul National University Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Korea, Republic of, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	severity of acute postoperative pain when moving		24 hours after VATS	No