The Impact of Intraoperative Systemic Lidocaine Infusion on Chronic Postoperative Pain After Video-assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS)

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2016-08-22
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Systemic lidocaine infusion may improve the patients' chronic post surgical pain after video-assisted thoracic surgery

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Yonsei University
• Treatments: Lidocaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age between 20 and 65 years

• ASA class 1 and 2

• Patients who are scheduled for video-assisted thoracic surgery

Exclusion Criteria:

• Allergy to local anesthetics or contraindication to use of lidocaine

• Pregnancy

• Severe cardiovascular disease

• Renal failure

• Liver failure

• Neurologic and psychologic disease

• Chronic treatment with analgesics or chronic pain patients

• Previous history of thoracic surgery (open or video-assisted)

• Patients' refusal