Intravenous Lidocaine in Carcinologic ENT Surgery: A Trial for Evaluation of Opioid Saving Strategy and Chronic Post-surgical Pain (ELICO)

Summary

Lidocaine, local anesthetic used for more than five decades, is being intravenously administered aiming at managing pain in different types of surgeries with promising results. Opioid-induced hyperalgesia need to be considered in ear-nose-throat (ENT) surgery owing to the difficulty of locoregional anesthesia and high level of opioid consumption. This randomized study aims to compare quality of perioperative analgesia after infusion of intravenous lidocaine during carcinological ENT surgery. The main purpose of this study is to evaluate morphine consumption during the 48 postoperative hours. Others purposes are evaluation of peroperative remifentanil consumption, morphine consumption during the 24 postoperative hours, chronic post-surgical pain evaluated from 3 to 6 months after carcinologic ENT surgery, and incidence of side effects that can be attributed to lidocaine infusion.

Timeline

Start

2016-12

Primary completion

2019-06

Completion

2019-12

Outcome

Missed primary endpoint

paper Intravenous lidocaine in ENT cancer surgery did not show any additional analgesic or morphine-sparing effect 48 h after surgery. PMID 35852564 ↗

Publications

• Background Omar E, Wallon G, Bauer C, Axiotis G, Bouix C, Soubirou JL, Aubrun F. Evaluation of intravenous lidocaine in head and neck cancer surgery: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials. 2019 Apr 15;20(1):220. doi: 10.1186/s13063-019-3303-x.
• Results Wallon G, Erbacher J, Omar E, Bauer C, Axiotis G, Thevenon S, Soubirou JL, Aubrun F. Effect of intravenous lidocaine on pain after head and neck cancer surgery (ELICO trial): A randomised controlled trial. Eur J Anaesthesiol. 2022 Sep 1;39(9):735-742. doi: 10.1097/EJA.0000000000001712. Epub 2022 Jul 20.

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