Systemic lidocaine infusion may improve the patients' chronic post surgical pain after video-assisted thoracic surgery
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
168
In group L, intravenous lidocaine infusion(0.1mg/kg) for 10minutes after induction of anesthesia. After 10 minutes, lidocaine infusion continued at rate of 3mg/kg/hr during operation, and discontinued before move the patients to PACU.
In group C, the patients receive same volume of normal saline
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Anesthesia and Pain Research Institue, Yonsei Universiy College of Medicine
Seoul, South Korea
Assessing pain score after operation
Assessing pain score by Short-form McGill pain questionnaire at 2 months after operation
Time frame: 2 months after operation
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