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NCT Number: NCT02315261

Effectiveness of Epidural Anesthesia for Thoracic and Abdominal Surgery

This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of the epidural analgesia in patients having elective thoracic and abdominal surgery under general anesthesia combined with epidural analgesia in Siriraj Hospital.

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Key information

Conditions

Analgesia Disorder Adverse Reaction to Epidural Anesthesia Anesthetic Complication Epidural

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Siriraj Hospital

Bangkok, 10700, Thailand

About this study

Epidural analgesia is the recommended perioperative analgesia in patients having major surgery in order to significantly reduced pain scores, minimize patient distress and can accelerate postoperative recovery especially with the major operation This technique has been reported to provide better pain control and less postoperative fatigue compared with patients receiving general anesthesia alone.Additionally, it is recommended in patients having major surgery to allow patients to mobilize quickly and have effective mobilization.This technique has been shown to be highly efficient at preventing postoperative ileus and various complications. Moreover, epidural analgesic technique is demonstrated to be safer and have fewer side effects than using intravenous opioids alone.

However, the epidural technique is not universally successful and the number of patients experiencing inadequate analgesia with this technique is approximately 12-32%. The failure of epidural analgesia is still a frequent clinical problem and needs active management including a new block or other analgesic medication in order to rescue postoperative pain. Previous study showed that the incidence of patients having epidural analgesia with postoperative moderate pain was 20.9% and that with severe pain was 7.8%. In Siriraj Hospital, recent study showed that 19.6% of patients having elective upper abdominal surgery under general anesthesia combined with epidural analgesia reported severe first pain scores in post anesthetic care unit.27 As a result of severe pain, patients needed a number of intervention and management from acute pain service, and finally spent longer time in post anesthetic care unit.

Inadequate pain control in patients receiving epidural analgesia frequently occurred in clinical practice but the number of the success rate or the failure rate have not been reported in our hospital. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of the epidural analgesia in patients having elective thoracic and abdominal surgery under general anesthesia combined with epidural analgesia in Siriraj Hospital.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • patients aged more than 18 years old scheduled to have thoracic or abdominal surgery under general anesthesia combined with epidural analgesia in Siriraj hospital

Exclusion criteria

  • inability to communicate or inform pain score
  • cesarean section or labor analgesia
  • additional analgesic techniques (spinal analgesia, paravertebral nerve block, intercostal block, transversus abdominis plane block, rectus sheath block, ilioinguinal block, iliohypogastric block
  • emergency surgery
  • fail epidural block after test dose of local anesthetics

Treatment and study plan

Elective Thoracic and Abdominal Surgery Patients

Procedure

This is an observational audit, reviewing the implementation of a standard care practice and requiring de-identified data collection in Elective Thoracic and Abdominal Surgery Patients only. All collected data will be that which is routinely part of normal clinical practice. The Research staff will systematically collect data on each patient. Some information can be obtained from the medical record, intraoperative anesthetic record, acute pain service record, etc whereas other information has to be obtained from direct observation at the bedside.

Other names: Epidural Analgesia

Primary outcomes

  1. Number of Patients Reporting Postoperative Verbal Rating Scale Pain at Rest More Than 7

    Time frame: at postoperative 24 hours

    Verbal Rating Scale Pain will routinely be assessed at postoperative 24 hours by the ward nurse.

    Minimum and maximum scores possible are 0 and 10. The higher values represent patients having more pain. Severe pain is defined as Verbal Rating Scale pain at rest more than 7.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Number of Patients Requiring Rescue Analgesic Medication

    Time frame: during the period of retaining of epidural catheter up to 3 days after operation

    Number of patients requiring at least one rescue analgesic medication including epidural catheter, oral and intravenous route after the operation

  2. Duration Retaining Epidural Catheter

    Time frame: the period of retaining of epidural catheter up to 3 days after operation

    Duration retaining epidural catheter in hospital

  3. All Adverse Effects and Postoperative Complications.

    Time frame: the period of retaining of epidural catheter up to 3 days after operation

    All Adverse Effects and Postoperative Complications included the number of patients having postoperative nausea and vomiting; hypotension; accidental dural puncture and post-dural puncture headache.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Siriraj Hospital

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Effectiveness of Epidural Anesthesia for Thoracic and Abdominal Surgery in Siriraj Hospital

Important dates

Study start
2014
Primary completion
2016
Study completion
2016
First posted
Dec 11, 2014
Registry last updated
Nov 13, 2018

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This listing is for discovery and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, does not guarantee that a study is recruiting, and does not determine eligibility. Contact the study team and a qualified healthcare professional when considering participation.

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