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Trial History Detail on 2006-04-12

CUHK_CCT00100

2006-04-12

Retrospective

RGC Grant CUHK4406/05M Project Code 2140452

RGC

Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Manoj K Karmakar

Department of Anaesthesiaand Inteneive Care, CUHK

karmakar@cuhk.edu.hk

Manoj K Karmakar

Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, CUHK

karmakar@cuhk.edu.hk

Continuous Thoracic Paravertebral Block: Effects on Acute and Chronic Pain, and Quality of Life after Breast Cancer Surgery.

Thoracic paravertebral block and chronic pain after breast surgery

Yes

2004-12-14

nil

Other

Thoracic paravertebral block

Thoracic paravertebral block

3 days

Control placebo paravertebral infusion

Inclusion: Consenting adult ASA 1-3 patients under the age of 70 years undergoing major breast cancer surgery (which includes axillary lymph node dissection) will be recruited for this study. Exclusion: The following patients will be excluded from the study: history of chronic pain, history of regular analgesic usage, contraindication to the use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID), known allergy to local anaesthetic drugs, infection at the site of block placement, bleeding tendency or with evidence of coagulopathy, pre-existing neurological or muscular disorders, history of psychiatric illness, pregnant patients, pre-existing nausea or vomiting, patients who in the 24 h before surgery received opioid or drugs with antiemetic properties, patients who received chemotherapy or radiotherapy before surgery and patients with breast pain before surgery.

Randomized

Placebo

Double-blind

Parallel

2005-09-01

180

Recruiting

Incidence of chronic pain after breast surgery

Quality of life

No

2011-12-12


Yes

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