Eligibility Module
The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.
Eligibility Module path is as follows:
Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module
Eligibility Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-25 @ 1:40 AM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-25 @ 1:40 AM
NCT ID:
NCT01976494
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
* scheduled for upper abdominal surgery due to upper gastrointestinal cancer under laparotomy and plan on using epidural PCA 2
* ASA class I-II
* adults aged between 20 to 70 years
* voluntarily give written consent
Exclusion Criteria:
* Patients who do not give consent to the researchers
* Patients who have allergies to the medication used for pain control, that is, the local anesthesia or opioid analgesic
* Patients who have a tendency to hemorrhage to be determined by clinical observations such as purple spots and test figures (when the PT or aPTT value is more than 1.5 times that of the normal value; platelet figures are decreased to 100,000 or lower
* Patients who have renal insufficiency or hepatic insufficiency
* Patients who do not want or fail to qualify for an epidural PCA
* Patients who are unable to express the degree of pain
* Patients who cannot understand Korean either by listening or reading
* Patients who have active infectious diseases or neurological diseases
* Patients who have an infection in the area to be punctured to mount the epidural catheter
Healthy Volunteers:
True
Sex:
ALL
Minimum Age:
20 Years
Maximum Age:
70 Years
Study:
NCT01976494
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT01976494