Echo-guided Scalp Blocks and Incidence of Postoperative Pain in Scheduled Supratentorial Intracranial Surgery.
Starting soon · Phase 3
Conditions studied: Anesthesia , Analgesia
In brief
Up to 30% of patients undergoing intracranial surgery present moderate to severe pain. In this type of surgery, the restriction of the pharmacopoeia, which goes against the concept of multimodal analgesia, results in the important use of opioids not without consequences in terms of complications. Numerous studies have highlighted the benefits of scalp blocks in postoperative pain. The originality of this study lies firstly in the fact that the scalp blocks will be guided by ultrasound and secondly, the incidence of severe pain after scalp blocks will be evaluated
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT07149077
- Run by
- University Hospital, Bordeaux
- People needed
- 230
- Starts
- 2026-09-01
- Expected to finish
- 2028-09-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2026-08-07
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Patient managed in the neurosurgical unit for supratentorial intracranial surgery.
- Person affiliated or beneficiary of a social security plan.
- Free, informed, and written consent signed by the participant and the investigating physician (at the latest on the day of inclusion and before any examination required by the research).
You may not qualify if…
- Surgical procedure under awake surgery (systematic realization of scalp blocks necessary)
- Aphasia of comprehension preoperatively or expected postoperatively or any other neurological impairment making self-evaluation of pain impossible.
- Contraindication to the use of local anesthetics: allergy or history of intoxication to local anesthetics
- Contraindication to adrenaline infiltration: severe ventricular rhythm disorders, severe obstructive cardiomyopathy, unstable coronary insufficiency, hypersensitivity to adrenaline.
- Chronic pain patient or patient with daily preoperative consumption of morphine
- Pregnant or breast-feeding woman
- Patient under legal protection (persons deprived of liberty or under guardianship)
Where it is running
- Bordeaux university hospital — Bordeaux, France
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