Paravertebral Block for Postoperative Analgesia in Thoracoscopic Surgery

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2017-07-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

To access the analgesic efficacy of patient controlled thoracic paravertebral analgesia.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Nguyen Trung Kien
• Collaborator: Nguyen Truong Giang, PhD. Associate Prof.
• Treatments: Bupivacaine; Fentanyl

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• American Society of Anesthesiologists class I to III risk undergoing elective VATS, aged 32-72 years, scheduled for lung resection surgery.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients who refused to participate, less than 18 years of age, ASA physical status 3 or more,, allergy to any of the study drugs, patients having any contraindication to placement of PVB, kyphoscoliosis, presence of acute herpes zoster, chronic pain syndrome, chronic analgesic use and psychiatric disease.