Superficial Cervical Plexus Block for Shoulder Pain After Lung Surgery
Status:
Terminated
Trial end date:
2014-05-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
The investigators want to know whether injecting numbing medication on the side of the neck
(also called superficial cervical plexus block) can prevent or reduce shoulder pain that
patients commonly experience after lung surgery. The investigators will perform the injection
at the end of your surgery while the subjects are still under general anesthesia and before
they wake up. The investigators will use a local anesthetic (bupivacaine or Marcaine®) that
is routinely used for skin infiltration of the surgical wounds.
This study is randomized and single-blind. This means that subjects will be assigned by
chance (like flipping a coin) to receive either an injection with active medication
(bupivacaine), or no injection at all.