Overview

Comparison of the Incidence of Inadequate Epidural Analgesia Between Protocol Based and Current Practice

Status:
Recruiting
Trial end date:
2021-12-01
Target enrollment:
0
Participant gender:
All
Summary
Epidural analgesia is the recommended analgesic technique in patients having surgery with severe postoperative pain such as thoracic and upper abdominal surgery. However, from the previous study, the incidence of inadequate pain control in patients receiving epidural analgesia is very high 48.6% in our hospital.
Phase:
N/A
Accepts Healthy Volunteers?
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Details
Lead Sponsor:
Mahidol University
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:

- All patients age ≥ 18 years old undergo surgery with epidural catheter insertion at
Siriraj hospital.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Coagulopathy

- Allergy to study drugs: local anesthetics and opioids

- History of chronic pain