Nefopam for Post Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Lobectomy
Status:
Recruiting
Trial end date:
2022-10-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
Video-assisted thoracoscopic (VATs) lobectomy is mild to moderately pain procedure. For
conventional thoracotomy, there are many invasive pain control such as epidural analgesia,
paravertebral block. However, for VATs, the invasive pain control somehow are too invasive.
Nefopam is non-opioid painkilling medication, Serotonin, norepinephrine, dopamine reuptake
inhibitor. Many study were demonstrated positive outcome of nefopam usage in many operation
such as abdominal surgery, laparocopic surgery, orthopedic surgery. Nevertheless, nefopam for
VATs is not well studied yet.