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Comparison of the effect of epidural block and spinal epidural block on acute pain in video-assisted thoracoscopic lung surgery

A prospective double-blinded randomized control trial comparing continuous erector spine plane block to continuous thoracic epidural analgesia for postoperative pain in video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
CRIS
Registry ID
KCT0003836
Enrollment
60
Registered
2019-04-23
Start date
2018-10-26
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2020-02-24

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

None listed

Interventions

Procedure/Surgery : The group of patients undergoing video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery were divided into two groups: the group receiving continuous thoracic epidural analgesia (control group) and t

Sponsors

Pusan National University Hospital
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: All adult patients with physical classification criteria 1 and 2 of the American Society of Anesthesiologists aged 18 to 85 years who are scheduled for wedge resection or lobectomy using video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS).

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: patients/guardian do not agree with the study patients with chronic pain patients who take opoids, adrenal cortical steroids, other analgesics recently patients with heart, lung, liver, kidney function abnormality Patients with evidence of infection at the site of the attempted block. Patients who underwent epidural blockade had a risk of bleeding upper 30kg/m2 of body mass index patients who cannot understand or express the scale of pain by number

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Numerical rating scale at rest and cough;total rescue dose consumption

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
side effects such as nausea, vomiting, dizziness etc.;amount of bolus dose of PCA;satisfaction(about procedure itself, relieving pain, side effect);The time it took to implement the procedure(from insertion of needle to catether);Sensory block range after erector spinae plane block / epidural block;Time to first rescue drug

Countries

Korea, Republic of

Contacts

Public ContactEunsoo Kim

Pusan National University Hospital

Outcome results

None listed

Source: CRIS (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026