Post Mastectomy Pain Syndrome After Preoperative Stellate Ganglion Block for Breast Cancer Surgeries

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2020-04-30
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

This study investigate the effect of pre-operative ultrasound guided stellate ganglion block with local anesthetic on the frequency of neuropathic pain syndromes in the first 6-month post cancer breast surgeries with axillary dissection.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: National Cancer Institute, Egypt

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Women were eligible if a diagnosis of breast cancer, programmed for breast surgery with axillary dissection, able to understand and willing to follow the study protocol

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patient refusal - Local infection at the site of injection - Allergy to study medications - Psychosocial disorders - pts on opioid or antianxiety - Sepsis - Anatomic abnormalities - Systemic anticoagulation or coagulopathy - Inability to comprehend or participate in pain scoring system - Recent myocardial infarction - Pathological bradycardia - Glaucoma

• Any contraindication for the multimodal analgesia e.g. (asthmatic patient and use of diclofenac, Diabetic patient and use of steroids)