ICNBs for Post-op Pain in Breast Surgery

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2021-08-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

The authors will conduct this study to analyze the effectiveness of peri-operative intercostal nerve blocks (ICNBs) in reducing acute postoperative pain after reconstructive breast surgery and mammoplasty and how it affects the length of hospital stay.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Christine M. Kleinert Institute for Hand and Microsurgery
• Collaborators: Baptist Health; Jewish Hospital and St. Mary's Healthcare; Kleinert, Kutz and Associates
• Treatments: Bupivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• American Society of Anesthesiologists Classification (ASA Class) 3 and below.

• Bilateral or unilateral breast surgery including cancer extirpation, reconstruction (implant and expander), oncoplastic surgery (<200 gm), breast augmentation and breast reduction, etc.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients who refuse local anesthesia.

• Patients who cannot receive local anesthesia.

• Below the age of 20 and above the age of 70.

• Patients requiring reoperation due to complications of mammoplasty or another breast surgery.

• Poorly controlled diabetics, uncontrolled hypertension, heart disease, arrhythmias, diagnosed with bipolar and generalized anxiety disorders.