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KETOR: Effects of Peri Operative Administration of Ketamine on Long Term Post Thoracotomy Pain

NCT00224588 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 80

Last updated 2006-04-13

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

We assessed the effects of the N Methyl aspartate receptor antagonist Ketamine on long-term post thoracotomy pain. We hypothesized that ketamine could prevent supersensitization of the central nervous system involved in this chronic neuropathic pain.

Conditions

  • Ketamine
  • Chronic Post Thoracotomy Pain
  • Thoracotomy
  • Pain
  • Neuralgia

Interventions

DRUG

Ketamine (or placebo : isotonic saline solution)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Direction Régionale de la Recherche Clinique D'ILE DE FRANCE

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Clinical Research Unit

    collaborator AMBIG

  • European Georges Pompidou Hospital

    collaborator OTHER

  • Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Thierry GUENOUN, MD · Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2003-01-31
Completion
2005-05-31

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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