Assessment of a Multimodal Analgesia for Enhanced Recovery After Cardiac Surgery

Recruiting now · Not applicable · Has a placebo group

Conditions studied: Transversus Thoracic Muscle Plane Block, Pecto-intercostal Fascial Block, Enhanced Recovery, Cardiac Surgery

In brief

This work aims to assess the analgesic efficacies of transversus thoracic muscle plane block (TTPB) and transversus thoracic muscle plane block (TTPB) for open cardiac surgeries

Key facts

Study ID

NCT07417462

Run by

Assiut University

People needed

90

Starts

2026-02-18

Expected to finish

2026-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2026-07-21

Who can join

Age: 40 and older, up to 60. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Age from 40 to 60 years.
• Both sexes.
• American Society of Anesthesiology (ASA) physical status II-III.
• Body mass index (BMI) < 35 kg/m2.
• Underwent cardiac surgery (coronary artery bypass graft surgery with median sternotomy).

You may not qualify if…

• Valve replacement procedures.
• Emergency operations.
• Redo surgeries.
• Minimally invasive approaches.
• The presence of psychiatric disorders.
• Cognitive impairment preventing accurate assessment using the verbal numerical rating scale (NRS).
• Known hypersensitivity or a history of allergy to local anesthetics.
• Had severe major organ dysfunction.
• Left ventricular ejection fraction below 30%.
• Pregnancy or breastfeeding.

Where it is running

• Assiut University — Asyut, Egypt (enrolling)

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

Trial information comes from ClinicalTrials.gov and is refreshed daily. TrialsForMe does not provide medical care and does not run the studies it lists.