A Phase II/III Study of Continuous Local Anesthetic Infusion in Median Sternotomy Following Cardiac Surgery
Status:
Terminated
Trial end date:
2008-06-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
Cardiac surgery is associated with pain in the post-operative period. We plan to conduct a
study of local anesthetic, ropivacaine, infusion into the sternal wound in adult patients
undergoing cardiac surgery to see if it will be safe and result in improved pain control and
reduced time to extubation, duration of ICU and hospital stay.