Pain After Lung Cancer Surgery - Comparing Traditional Versus Prolonged Release Nerve Blockades

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Trial end date: 2022-05-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

To investigate the effect of liposomal bupivacaine compared with bupivacaine hydrochloride for intercostal blockades for patients undergoing Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery.

• Phase: Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Jannie Bisgaard Stæhr
• Treatments: Bupivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adults independent of sex with an age of ≥ 18 years

• Patients undergoing VATS as a part of either examination or treatment of lung cancer

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients who are unable to understand oral and written information.

• Patients with known chronic pain in the thorax which have been persisting for at least six months before the day of surgery.

• Pregnant and nursing women.

• Patients with hypersensitivity / allergy / Intolerance to dexamethasone or bupivacaine.

• Patients receiving a planned preoperative epidural blockade during their stay.

• Patients converted to open surgery.