Preoperative Pain Control in Liver Surgery Patients

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2014-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Pregabalin 150mg or placebo are administered 1 hour preoperatively in patients undergoing partial hepatectomy. Postoperatively, patients receive morphine as rescue analgesic. Morphine consumption in the first 48 hours is documented. Postoperative pain is measured by the visual analogue scale (VAS) score.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital
• Treatments: Pregabalin

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• patients undergoing partial hepatectomy

Exclusion Criteria:

• contraindication against pregabalin

• creatinine > 2.0 mg/dl

• GGT >165, AST >105, ALT >135

• peptic Ulcus

• haemorrhagic diathesis

• angina pectoris, myocardial infarction

• stroke

• bronchial asthma

• opioid abuse