The Effects of TAP Block on Postsurgical Pain After Minimally Invasive Partial Nephrectomy:
CompletedNot applicableNCT02460640
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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)
Single-center study in order to assess whether the tap block can make extremely beneficial in terms of reducing the acute and chronic pain as well as for use of opioids and side effects related to it in patients undergoing surgery to minimally invasive partial nephrectomy.
Study details
- Official title
- The Effects of Ultrasound-guided Transversus Abdominis Plane Block on Acute and Chronic Postsurgical Pain After Robotic Partial Nephrectomy. A Prospective, Randomized, Clinical Trial
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Procedure: Tap block
- Procedure: intravenous Patient controlled analgesia
- Drug: Morphine
- Drug: Ropivacaine
- Sponsor
- Regina Elena Cancer Institute
- Start date
- 2015-05
- Primary completion
- 2017-08
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Italy
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * asa score I,II,II * patients scheduled for robot assisted partial nephrectomy Exclusion Criteria: * previous abdominal surgery * inability to provide informed consent * allergy to the anesthetic drugs
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02460640