Description Module
The Description Module contains narrative descriptions of the clinical trial, including a brief summary and detailed description. These descriptions provide important information about the study's purpose, methodology, and key details in language accessible to both researchers and the general public.
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Description Module
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2025-12-25 @ 12:36 AM
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2025-12-25 @ 12:36 AM
NCT ID:
NCT01196767
Brief Summary:
This is a prospective double-blinded and randomised study involving patients undergoing cardiac surgery with median sternotomy, the effects on postoperative analgesia of a 48-hr continuous infusion of ropivacaine 2 mg.mL-1, at the rate of 4 mL.hr-1 through two catheters inserted at the lateral edges of the sternum will be studied, versus a control group in which normal saline will be infused in the same conditions.
Detailed Description:
Diverse methods for infusion of local anaesthetics after cardiac surgery have been proposed, but none of them provided high-level evidence of efficacy. The catheters studied here are designed for a surgical insertion before closure of the sternotomy, with the aim of infusing the drug the closest possible of the terminations of intercostal nerves.
Study:
NCT01196767
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT01196767