Fentanyl With or Without Bupivacaine in Reducing Pain in Patients Undergoing Video-Assisted Chest Surgery

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Conditions studied: Pain, Perioperative/Postoperative Complications

In brief

RATIONALE: Patient-controlled analgesia using fentanyl and bupivacaine may lessen pain caused by video-assisted chest surgery. Giving bupivacaine in different ways may give better pain relief. PURPOSE: Thisrandomized clinical trial is comparing three different ways to give bupivacaine together with fentanyl to see how well they work in reducing pain after video-assisted chest surgery.

Key facts

Study ID
NCT00538499
Run by
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
People needed
30
Starts
2004-10-28
Expected to finish
2009-09-01
Last updated by the study team
2017-02-09

Who can join

Age: any, up to 120. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

Where it is running

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