Influence of Analgesic Technique on Post Operative Rehabilitation After Median Laparotomy

Recruiting now · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Laparotomy

In brief

Randomized controlled trial (1:1) in two parallel groups, multicentric, open-label, comparing two locoregional anesthesia (LRA) techniques as integral parts of multimodal analgesia: the control group will benefit from epidural anesthesia, while the experimental group will benefit from bilateral placement of catheters in the sheath of the rectus abdominis muscles.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04985695

Run by

Centre Hospitalier Régional Metz-Thionville

People needed

110

Starts

2021-10-11

Expected to finish

2029-04-10

Last updated by the study team

2025-12-16

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• ASA (American Society of Anesthesiologists) Class I-IV adult, with programmed midline laparotomy
• Have given an informed written consent
• Able to read and understand french language
• Affiliation to a social security system

You may not qualify if…

• Local anesthesic contraindication (allergy, porphyria, haemolytic anaemia, uncontrolled epilepsy, or severe cardiac conduction disorders) or TEA (coagulation disorders, progressive neurological disease, or severe spinal disorder),
• Epidural analgesia contraindication
• With impossibility to set up bilateral rectus sheath block
• Participation in another clinical study
• Pregnant women
• Patients deprived of their liberty by a judicial or administrative decision,
• Patients undergoing psychiatric care under articles L.3212-1 and L.3213-1 of the French Public Health Code

Where it is running

• CHR Metz Thionville Hopital de Mercy — Metz, Moselle, France (enrolling)
• CHR Metz-Thionville Hopital Bel Air — Thionville, France

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