Status:
UNKNOWN
Thoracic Epidural Analgesia in Flail Chest
Lead Sponsor:
Assiut University
Conditions:
Flail Chest
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-60 years
Phase:
PHASE2
PHASE3
Brief Summary
The applicability of different thoracic epidural analgesia for patients with flail chest
Detailed Description
Pain due to traumatic rib fractures may be associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Fracture ribs cause severe pain that adversely affects patients' ability to cough and breathe deeply, that...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Older than 18 years.
- American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status 1 or 2.
- mentally competent and able to give consent for enrollment in the study
Exclusion
- Patient refusal.
- Psychiatric disorder
- Patient younger than 18 years old
- Allergy to local anesthetics, systemic opioids (fentanyl, morphine)
- Impaired kidney functions and patient with coagulopathy will be also excluded.
- Chronic pain syndromes and patients with chronic opioid use defined as use of regular daily doses of systemic narcotics for the past 6 months prior to the surgery.
- BMI of 40 or more
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
February 1 2018
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
July 1 2018
Estimated Enrollment :
40 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT03413059
Start Date
February 1 2018
End Date
July 1 2018
Last Update
January 29 2018
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