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Local Anesthetic for Total Mastectomy Surgery

NCT02893384 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: PHASE4 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2016-09-08

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Pain following mastectomy surgery for breast cancer can be significant. Poorly managed pain in the immediate time-period following surgery can potentially lead to long-term (chronic) pain conditions. There is still a need to find the safest, least invasive, and most effective method to manage this pain. The investigators believe that a new technique of injecting local anesthesia (freezing) in to specific areas at the end of mastectomy surgery may be a very important step to managing pain after breast surgery. The investigators would like to begin by performing a pilot study, meaning the investigators will perform the technique in patients and compare what their pain outcomes are to patients who have not had the technique.

Conditions

  • Breast Pain

Interventions

DRUG

Local Anesthetic Injection above the serratus anterior

This is a quantitative pilot study assessing whether a new technique of local anesthesia injection during mastectomy surgery gives better pain outcomes than the standard methods. Patients who meet inclusion criteria will be invited to partake and all patients will have the injection technique. These patients will then be monitored for pain outcomes up to 7 days following the surgery and the results compared with historical results from patients who have already had the surgery.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Health Network, Toronto

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Vincent Chan, MD · Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, University of Toronto

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
85 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-09-30
Primary Completion
2016-12-31
Completion
2016-12-31

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