Systemic Effects of Lidocaine Infusion for TAP Block Catheter

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2021-08-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Lidocaine is a local anesthetic that is usually used for nerve blocks to sensory/motor blockade. However, lidocaine can also been given intravenously, and it has been shown that this method can be used to help alleviate chronic pain. We wish to investigate if lidocaine is infused via the transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block catheter will exert systemic effect, hence reduce opioid consumption and pain score in patients compared with using local anesthetic such as ropivacaine.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Alberta
• Treatments: Lidocaine; Ropivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Elective nephrectomy

• patients consent to study

• ASA I to III

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patient refusal

• Allergy to lidocaine,

• Patients with cardiac arrhythmias or on anti-arrhythmics or propranolol

• Wolf-Parkinson White syndrome

• Hepatic disease