Awake Thoracic Epidural Anesthesia Versus General Anesthesia in Thoracotomy

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Conditions studied: Awake, Thoracic Epidural Anesthesia, General Anesthesia, Thoracotomy

In brief

This study aims to compare awake thoracic epidural anesthesia and general anesthesia in thoracotomy.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT06930183

Run by

Cairo University

People needed

50

Starts

2025-04-16

Expected to finish

2025-10-01

Last updated by the study team

2025-04-17

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 75. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Age from 18 to 75 years old.
• Both genders.
• American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status classification II or III.
• Scheduled for thoracotomy.

You may not qualify if…

• Difficult airway management,
• Hemodynamically unstable patients, obesity (body mass index >30).
• Absolute contraindication to thoracic epidural anesthesia such as (patient refusal, allergy to local anesthetics, coagulopathy, active neurologic disorders, skin infection at insertion site, uncooperative patients, uncontrolled cough, and unfavorable anatomy for thoracic epidural).
• Neurological disorders: risk of seizure, unable to cooperate, intracranial mass or brain edema, extensive pleural adhesions or previous pulmonary resections, hypoxemia (PaO2 <60) or hypercarbia (PaCO2 >50)
• Poor cardiac function (ejection fraction less than 50%).
• Patients with bad pulmonary function tests.

Where it is running

• Cairo University — Cairo, Egypt (enrolling)

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