IRB-HSR# 13957: IV Lidocaine for Patients Undergoing Primary Breast Cancer Surgery:

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a local anesthetic drug (lidocaine) given during anesthesia intravenously (IV) through a needle in your vein,), can: 1. Help decrease pain after surgery. 2. Have you need less pain medication. 3. Have less side effects like nausea and vomiting following your surgery. 4. Help to prevent chronic pain. 5. Affect recurrence of cancer after surgery.

Timeline

Start

2009-08-01

Primary completion

2018-11-08

Completion

2018-11-08

Publications

• Background Kaba A, Laurent SR, Detroz BJ, Sessler DI, Durieux ME, Lamy ML, Joris JL. Intravenous lidocaine infusion facilitates acute rehabilitation after laparoscopic colectomy. Anesthesiology. 2007 Jan;106(1):11-8; discussion 5-6. doi: 10.1097/00000542-200701000-00007.
• Background Herroeder S, Pecher S, Schonherr ME, Kaulitz G, Hahnenkamp K, Friess H, Bottiger BW, Bauer H, Dijkgraaf MG, Durieux ME, Hollmann MW. Systemic lidocaine shortens length of hospital stay after colorectal surgery: a double-blinded, randomized, placebo-controlled trial. Ann Surg. 2007 Aug;246(2):192-200. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e31805dac11.
• Background Groudine SB, Fisher HA, Kaufman RP Jr, Patel MK, Wilkins LJ, Mehta SA, Lumb PD. Intravenous lidocaine speeds the return of bowel function, decreases postoperative pain, and shortens hospital stay in patients undergoing radical retropubic prostatectomy. Anesth Analg. 1998 Feb;86(2):235-9. doi: 10.1097/00000539-199802000-00003.
• Background Cassuto J, Wallin G, Hogstrom S, Faxen A, Rimback G. Inhibition of postoperative pain by continuous low-dose intravenous infusion of lidocaine. Anesth Analg. 1985 Oct;64(10):971-4.
• Background Wallace MS, Wallace AM, Lee J, Dobke MK. Pain after breast surgery: a survey of 282 women. Pain. 1996 Aug;66(2-3):195-205. doi: 10.1016/0304-3959(96)03064-3.
• Background Jung BF, Ahrendt GM, Oaklander AL, Dworkin RH. Neuropathic pain following breast cancer surgery: proposed classification and research update. Pain. 2003 Jul;104(1-2):1-13. doi: 10.1016/s0304-3959(03)00241-0. No abstract available.
• Background Fassoulaki A, Sarantopoulos C, Melemeni A, Hogan Q. EMLA reduces acute and chronic pain after breast surgery for cancer. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2000 Jul-Aug;25(4):350-5. doi: 10.1053/rapm.2000.7812.
• Background Christopherson R, James KE, Tableman M, Marshall P, Johnson FE. Long-term survival after colon cancer surgery: a variation associated with choice of anesthesia. Anesth Analg. 2008 Jul;107(1):325-32. doi: 10.1213/ane.0b013e3181770f55.
• Background Exadaktylos AK, Buggy DJ, Moriarty DC, Mascha E, Sessler DI. Can anesthetic technique for primary breast cancer surgery affect recurrence or metastasis? Anesthesiology. 2006 Oct;105(4):660-4. doi: 10.1097/00000542-200610000-00008.
• Background Biki B MD, Sessler DI, Mascha E, Buggy DJ: Can Anaesthetic Technique for Radical Prostatectomy Surgery Affect Recurrence or Metastasis?, ASA Annual Meeting American Society of Anesthesiologists. San Francisco, 2007
• Background Ben-Eliyahu S, Page GG, Yirmiya R, Shakhar G. Evidence that stress and surgical interventions promote tumor development by suppressing natural killer cell activity. Int J Cancer. 1999 Mar 15;80(6):880-8. doi: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0215(19990315)80:63.0.co;2-y.
• Background Farooqui M, Li Y, Rogers T, Poonawala T, Griffin RJ, Song CW, Gupta K. COX-2 inhibitor celecoxib prevents chronic morphine-induced promotion of angiogenesis, tumour growth, metastasis and mortality, without compromising analgesia. Br J Cancer. 2007 Dec 3;97(11):1523-31. doi: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6604057. Epub 2007 Oct 30.
• Background Eisenstein TK, Hilburger ME. Opioid modulation of immune responses: effects on phagocyte and lymphoid cell populations. J Neuroimmunol. 1998 Mar 15;83(1-2):36-44. doi: 10.1016/s0165-5728(97)00219-1.
• Background Apfel CC, Korttila K, Abdalla M, Kerger H, Turan A, Vedder I, Zernak C, Danner K, Jokela R, Pocock SJ, Trenkler S, Kredel M, Biedler A, Sessler DI, Roewer N; IMPACT Investigators. A factorial trial of six interventions for the prevention of postoperative nausea and vomiting. N Engl J Med. 2004 Jun 10;350(24):2441-51. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa032196.
• Terkawi AS, Durieux ME, Gottschalk A, Brenin D, Tiouririne M. Effect of intravenous lidocaine on postoperative recovery of patients undergoing mastectomy: a double-blind, placebo-controlled randomized trial. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2014 Nov-Dec;39(6):472-7. doi: 10.1097/AAP.0000000000000140.

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