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Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
Main ID:  NCT03005548
Date of registration: 24/12/2016
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Military Medical Academy, Belgrade, Serbia
Public title: Cortical Modulation of Acute Post-thoracotomy Pain With Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation CMAPTPtDCS
Scientific title: Cortical Modulation of Acute Post-thoracotomy Pain With Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
Date of first enrolment: June 2016
Target sample size: 62
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT03005548
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Treatment. Masking: Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor).  
Phase:  Phase 2
Countries of recruitment
Serbia
Contacts
Name:     Tihomir V Ilic, MD, PhD
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Affiliation:  Military Medical Academy
Name:     Dusica M Stamenkovic, MD, PhD
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Affiliation:  Military Medical Academy
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Subject is willing and able to provide written informed consent,

- Subject is 18-80 years old,

- Subject needs thoracotomy for confirmed malignant lung disease,

- Subject is extubated in the operating room

Exclusion Criteria:

- Subject is pregnant

- Subject is in treatment for psychiatric disease

- Subject is in treatment for neurological disease

- Subject is in treatment for chronic pain

- Subject has history of current or past alcohol or Street Drug abuse

- Subject has received chemotherapy

- Subject has history of previous thoracic or cardiac surgery

- Subject is allergic to medications that will be used in the study

- Subject has pacemaker or automatic implantable cardioverter/defibrillator

- Subject has implants or any other devices in the head, the spinal cord or peripheral
nerves

- Subject has confirmed brain lesion, including tumor or metastasis



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 80 Years
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Pain, Postoperative
Intervention(s)
Device: Transcranial direct current stimulation
Drug: Morphine
Primary Outcome(s)
Amount of morphine used for treatment of pain after thoracotomy in a group of patients receiving tDCS combined with intravenous morphine PCA compared with a group of patients receiving sham stimulation combined with intravenous morphine PCA. [Time Frame: Five days]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Pain scores measured using visual analogue scale (VAS) at rest, during movement and during cough in patients receiving tDCS combined and IV morphine PCA compared with patients receiving sham stimulation and IV morphine PCA. [Time Frame: Five days]
Secondary ID(s)
MF-VMA// 07.12.2015.
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
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