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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
Main ID:  NCT02538679
Date of registration: 20/08/2015
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Public title: A Comparison of Ultrasound Guided Transversus Abdominis Plane Nerve Block Techniques
Scientific title: A Comparison of Ultrasound Guided Transversus Abdominis Plane Nerve Block Technique Versus Laparoscopic Transversus Abdominis Plane Nerve Block Technique Versus No Block on Postoperative Opioid Consumption After Major Colorectal Surgery
Date of first enrolment: August 7, 2015
Target sample size: 127
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02538679
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Treatment. Masking: Double (Participant, Investigator).  
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
Contacts
Name:     Karen Zaghiyan, MD
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Affiliation:  Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Willingness and ability to sign an informed consent document

2. No allergies to anesthetic or analgesic medications

3. American Society of Anesthesia (ASA) physical status Class I - III adults of either
sex

4. Aged 18-90 years

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Refusal to participate in the study

2. Age <18 or > 90 years

3. Contraindications to regional blockage including but not limited to:

- Patient refusal to regional blockade

- Infection at the site of needle insertion

- Systemic infection

- Bleeding diathesis or coagulopathy (as diagnosed by history or laboratory
evaluation)



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 90 Years
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Postoperative Pain
Crohn's Disease
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Intervention(s)
Drug: Lap TAP Bupivacaine/Epinephrine
Other: Placebo
Drug: US TAP Bupivacaine/Epinephrine
Primary Outcome(s)
Morphine Requirement [Time Frame: 24 hours]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
Pro00037604
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
Results available: Yes
Date Posted: 27/03/2018
Date Completed:
URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/results/NCT02538679
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