Epidural and Intravenous Patient-Controlled Analgesia Following Lumbar Spinal Fusion Surgery
Status:
Recruiting
Trial end date:
2022-12-04
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
Postoperative analgesia following spine surgery is difficult to manage. Current treatment
modalities rely heavily on opioid analgesics with all of the inherent limitations and side
effects. While current best practice focuses on a 'multimodal approach' (i.e. using multiple
different drugs and techniques to control pain after surgery), there is no consensus
regarding which components of this multimodal therapy provide optimal analgesia. This
prospective randomized study will enroll patients undergoing elective Lumbar Spinal Fusion
Surgery at Zale Lipshy University Hospital. The primary objective is to determine the
comparative efficacy of epidural analgesia, as compared with intravenous (IV)
patient-controlled analgesia (PCA), on post-operative analgesia.