Serratus Anterior Plane Block: Post-operative Analgesia in Video-assisted Thoracic Surgery
Unknown statusNot applicableNCT03277391
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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 objective of the study is to compare the efficacy of the Serratus Anterior Plane block (SPB) realised in its deep plane, with a multi-holed catheter in place for twenty four hours, to a standard intravenous analgesia for small videoassisted thoracic surgery interventions. The objective is also to evaluate the resorption rate of local anesthetic at this level, and make a population pharmacokinetic analysis.
Study details
- Official title
- Serratus Anterior Plane Block: Post-operative Analgesia Technique in Video-assisted Thoracic Surgery. Efficacy Pilot Study and Population Pharmacokinetic Analysis
- Conditions
- Regional Anesthesia
- Thoracic Surgery
- Post-operative Pain
- Post-operative Chronic Pain
- Pharmacokinetic Analysis
- Serratus Anterior Plane Block
- Interventions
- Procedure: Serratus anterior plane block
- Device: patient-controlled analgesia
- Sponsor
- Université Libre de Bruxelles
- Start date
- 2017-04-14
- Primary completion
- 2018-04
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 85 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Belgium
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: American Society of Anesthesiologists physic status 1, 2 and 3 who require surgical video-assisted thoracoscopy or video assisted thoracic surgery without mini-thoracotomy 1. Lung pathologies: * biopsies * symphysis, pleurectomy * emphysema bullae resection 2. pleural pathologies: * biopsies * collections, intra pleural effusion 3. mediastinal pathologies: * adenopathy staging * cysts * sympathectomy T2-T5 * vagotomy * splanchnicectomy Exclusion Criteria: 1. refusal 2. allergy to local anesthetic - contra-indication to the use of ropivacaine 3. pregnancy 4. liver failure 5. severe kidney disease (GFR \< 15ml/min) 6. chronic intake of opioids 7. neurological or psychiatric disorders interfering with pain assessment 8. severe and morbid obesity (BMI \> 35)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03277391