Study of Postoperative ICC Analgesia

Phase 3 Completed 32 enrolled University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

RandomizedParallel-groupQuadruple-blindTreatment

Summary

This study is to examine the analgesic effectiveness of continuous loco-regional analgesic application (ropivacaine) through surgically placed Intercostal Catheter (ICC) and to establish correctly this method as a possible standard of care in the postoperative analgesia after Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) anatomical lung resection.

Timeline

Start: 2021-12-15
Primary completion: 2023-03-20
Completion: 2023-10-20

Publications

Hojski A, Kramer M, Gecas P, Djakovic Z, Tsvetkov N, Mallaev M, Bolliger D, Lampart A, Lardinois D. The efficacy of loco-regional ropivacaine analgesia via intercostal catheters after lung resection: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, superiority study. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2024 Oct 1;66(4):ezae342. doi: 10.1093/ejcts/ezae342.

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Subject	Ropivacaine	Other / unclassified	2 mg/ml	Other

Indications

No indication recorded.