Percutaneous Ketamine Versus Lidocaine or Placebo, for Post-Surgery Analgesia, in Patients Undergoing Laparoscopic Partial Lung Resection

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2009-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Since VAT bears with it severe postopearive pain, and since ketamine has been shown to be an optimal analgesics adjuvant for postoperative pain, we wish to assess to effects of ketamie vs. lidocaine if put on the skin in the sites where scopes are interset into the chest for thoracoscopy.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
• Treatments: Ketamine; Lidocaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• all patients undergoing VAT

Exclusion Criteria:

• emergency patients, open thoracotomy