Status:

COMPLETED

Postoperative Rehabilitation After Cardiac Surgery in Patients at Risk of Respiratory Complications. Effects of a Continuous Bi-laterosternal Infusion of Ropivacaine Through Multihole Catheters

Lead Sponsor:

University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand

Conditions:

Scheduled Cardiac Surgery

Sternotomy

Eligibility:

All Genders

18-85 years

Phase:

PHASE2

Brief Summary

Postoperative pain after cardiac surgery is a risk factor for postoperative complications. In cardiac surgery, pain is more intense during the first 48 hours and disturbs the patient's capacity of cou...

Detailed Description

Prospective, controlled, randomised, parallel, single-centre, single-blinded trial, comparing to a control (conventional care with no locoregional anaesthesia) an infusion of ropivacaine through two m...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Scheduled cardiac surgery (aortic or mitral valve replacement, or coronary bypass surgery) with sternotomy.
  • Patients will be at risk of noncardiac postoperative complications, i.e. age over 75, BMI over 30, pulmonary disease, or active smoking habit

Exclusion

  • surgery in emergency
  • thoracotomy
  • cardiac graft
  • redo
  • aortic dissection
  • age over 85
  • pregnancy
  • patient's refusal
  • minor or adult under legal protection
  • psychiatric ongoing disease
  • addiction to opiates
  • ongoing opiate treatment
  • inability to use a PCA device
  • respiratory insufficiency (Vital capacity or maximal expired volume per sec. \< 50% of the expected value, or mean PAP \> 50 mmHg)
  • cardiac failure or EF \< 40% or intra-aortic balloon use
  • pulmonary hypertension over 50 mmHg
  • severe renal insufficiency
  • history of allergy or intolerance to: morphine, acetaminophen, ropivacaine.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

April 27 2013

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

January 19 2015

Estimated Enrollment :

120 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT01828788

Start Date

April 27 2013

End Date

January 19 2015

Last Update

July 5 2018

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CHU Clermont-Ferrand

Clermont-Ferrand, France, 63003