Does an Abdominal Wall Nerve Block During Surgery Help Reduce Pain From Kidney Transplantation?

• Status: Enrolling by invitation
• Trial end date: 2024-06-30
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This is a randomized, placebo controlled, double blind study to determine the effectiveness of a Transversus Abdominis Plane (TAP) block for reducing postoperative pain and opioid use in kidney transplant recipients.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: The Cleveland Clinic
• Treatments: Bupivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Recipients of a single, living or deceased renal transplantation

Exclusion Criteria:

• Previous renal transplantation on the same side of the body

• Requiring a native or graft nephrectomy or other additional procedures

• Urine diversion or augmentation

• Bowel diversion

• Recipients of an enbloc pediatric kidney

• Recipients of a dual kidney transplantation