Postoperative subQ Pain Control for Spinal Fusion Surgery

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2021-06-30
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Post-operative pain following lumbar spine fusion is frequently difficult to manage and can lead to increased doses of opiate pain medications to control pain. In this study, the use of subcutaneous local anesthesia will be studied to determine its efficacy at reducing post-operative pain following spinal fusion surgery.

• Phase: Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Arizona
• Treatments: Analgesics; Bupivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patient 18 years of age or greater

• Surgery to be done at Banner University Medical Center-Tucson

• Elective Surgeries only

• Lower Thoracic or Lumbar fusions only - Posterior Approach

• Postero or Posterolateral Instrumented Fusions with or without Interbody graft

• Transforaminal Interbody Fusions

• Must be able to cooperate in the daily VAS assessment

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients under 18 years of age

• Prisoners

• Pregnant women

• Hypersensitivity to infusion medication

• Deformity Correction cases requiring osteotomies

• Surgical fusion in acute phase for traumatic injury

• Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion, Direct Lateral Interbody Fusion procedures