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Perioperative Lidocaine Administration in Thoracoscopic Surgery for Improved Postoperative Pain Control

CompletedPhase 3NCT03677817
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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)

Placebo-controlled study to analyze the effect of perioperative intravenous lidocaine administration on total morphine consumption (TMC) and on pain intensity in thoracoscopic surgery .

Study details

Official title
Prospective, Randomized, Double Blind, Superiority Trial, Evaluating the Effect of Perioperative Lidocaine on Postoperative Opioid Consumption, Pain Ratings, Duration of Hospital Stay, Time to First Defecation, 30-day Mortality and Development of Chronic Pain in Patients Undergoing Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Procedures
Interventions
Sponsor
University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
Start date
2019-04-03
Primary completion
2022-08-28
Sex
All
Age range
from 18 Years
Results posted
No results posted in this snapshot
Countries
Switzerland
Total sites listed
1

Eligibility criteria

Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Patients undergoing video-assisted thoracoscopic procedures under general anaesthesia. * American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical Status classes I to III * age ≥ 18 years * Patient informed consent Exclusion Criteria: * Contraindications to the class of drugs under study, e.g. known hypersensitivity or allergy to class of drugs or the investigational product * Contraindications to self-administration of opioids * Women who are pregnant or breast feeding * Steroid therapy * Chronic pain therapy * Atrioventricular block grade II to III * Congestive heart failure * Liver insufficiency * Known or suspected non-compliance, drug or alcohol abuse * Inability to follow the procedures of the study, e.g. due to language problems, psychological disorders, dementia * Participation in another study with investigational drug within the 30 days preceding and during the present study, * Enrolment of the investigator, his/her family members, employees and other dependent persons

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03677817