A Study Investigating Pain Following Single-port or Multi-port Video Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery

• Status: Withdrawn
• Trial end date: 1969-12-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This study seeks to establish if thoracoscopic surgery performed through a single port or incision reduces early post-operative pain compared with conventional multiple port thoracoscopic surgery.

This initial pilot study is designed to establish whether a trial of the two techniques is acceptable to patients, clinically feasible and can be delivered in a reasonable timescale.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust; University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
• Collaborator: David Telling Charitable Trust
• Treatments: Acetaminophen; Diclofenac; Levobupivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Subjects will be recruited from patients requiring VATS for elective lung, lymph node or mediastinal biopsies or wedge resections of pulmonary nodules.

• Technically suitable for both single port or multiport approaches in the opinion of the recruiting surgeon.

• ASA 1,2 or 3.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Pregnancy or breastfeeding.

• Patient refusal.

• Emergency surgery.

• Patient unable to provide consent or complete the follow up.

• Patients who attend a chronic pain clinic on high doses of opiate drugs.

• History of Anaphylaxis/allergy to local anaesthetic.

• Lobectomy patients.