NSAIDs With Morphine-PCA Compared to Epidural Analgesia in Thoracotomy Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT01541137
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
The investigators investigated whether a strictly controlled pain management with patients participating in a clinical study can attenuate persistence of post-thoracotomy pain. The investigators also wanted to find out whether NSAID + intravenous patient-controlled analgesia with morphine is an efficacious alternative to thoracic epidural analgesia.
Study details
- Official title
- NSAID With IV-PCA Morphine is an Alternative to Thoracic Epidural Analgesia in Post-thoracotomy Pain
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Drug: Diclofenac
- Drug: parecoxib/ valdecoxib
- Device: patient controlled epidural analgesia
- Sponsor
- Helsinki University Central Hospital
- Collaborators
- Academy of Finland
- Start date
- 2004-03
- Primary completion
- 2008-09
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Finland
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Patients scheduled for elective thoracotomy for lung surgery Exclusion Criteria: * Contraindication to any of the study drugs or an epidural catheter, * Significant liver, renal or cardiac disease * Peptic ulcer * Regular use of analgesics * Re-thoracotomy, and the patient´s inability to understand the use of PCA/patient controlled thoracic epidural analgesia (PCEA).
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT01541137