The Effect of Phrenic Nerve Blockade on Acute and Chronic Shoulder Pain in Patients for Lobectomy and Pneumonectomy
CompletedPhase 4NCT02173418
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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 purpose of this study was to test whether peroperative infiltration of the phrenic nerve during lung surgery would protect patients against postoperative shoulder pain.
Study details
- Official title
- The Effect of Phrenic Nerve Blockade on Acute and Chronic Shoulder Pain in Patients for Lobectomy and Pneumonectomy.
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Drug: Phrenic nerve block with Ropivacaine
- Drug: Phrenic nerve block with saline
- Sponsor
- Odense University Hospital
- Collaborators
- Region of Southern Denmark; University of Southern Denmark; Læge Fritz Karners og hustrus Foundation; Overlæge dr. med. Edgar Schnohr og hustru Gilberte Schnohrs Foundation
- Start date
- 2012-11
- Primary completion
- 2014-07
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Denmark
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Patients planned for elective lobectomy or pneumonectomy 2. 18 years or more on the day of the operation 3. Danish skills appropriate for fulfilling preoperative questionnaires Exclusion Criteria: 1. Known contralateral paresis of the Phrenic nerve 2. Allergy to Ropivacaine or Sodium Chloride 3. Preoperative ipsilateral shoulder pain 4. Infection or eczema on the intervention site. Clinical decision 5. Dementia or similar cerebral condition that makes the subject unable to perform a NRS-score of pain. Determined by clinical evaluation 6. Pregnancy 7. Acute porphyria
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02173418