The study aim to study whether spinal anesthesia (using: bupivacain, morfin och klonidin) can be better than epidural anesthesia during and after open surgery for renal cell carcinoma. Per- and postoperative pain after spinal anesthesia with klonidin can be reduced and, thus, shorten the hospital stay and rehabilitation of the patients.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
120
spinal injection of 12 mg bupivacain,160 ug morfin och klonidin, according to age
epidural anesthesia: patients get an continuous infusion of a solution with bupivacain 1 mg/ml, fentanyl 1 ug/ml and adrenalin 1 ug/ml
Umea University Hospital
Umeå, Sweden
postoperative mobilisation index
Using a number of variables an index of mobilisation has been created; eg pain (10 graded scale), malaise, intravenous substitution, eating in dining room, Walking outside ward room, passage of stool, carrying urinary bladder catheter, can mobilise out of bed without help
Time frame: within the first 30 days (plus or minus 5 days) after surgery
time of hospitalization
time in hospital after surgery until discharge
Time frame: within the first 15 days after surgery
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