Lumbar spinae stenosis surgery is a frequent intervention resulting in important postoperative pain. Management of this postoperative pain is thus important. Different pain management therapies exist. The erector spinae plane (ESP) block was described in 2016. It involves the injection of local anesthetics into the interfascial plane, deep to erector spinae muscle, allowing the blockade of the dorsal and ventral rami of the thoracic spinal nerves. It was initially proposed for analgesia of costal fractures, pulmonary lobectomy and thoracic vertebrae. The ESP block (ESPB) could probably be extended to a large number of surgical procedures. ESPB has so far not been investigated in lumbar spinae stenosis surgery.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
80
Ultrasound guided performance of ESPB at T12 level after the induction of anesthesia but before the start of the surgery
Local infiltration of anesthetics at surgical site after skin incision
Clinique Saint Pierre
Ottignies, Brabant Wallon, Belgium
RECRUITINGTotal 24 h Piritramide consumption
Total consumption of Piritramide consumption after surgery
Time frame: 24 hours
Quebec back pain disability scale (QBPDS)
A questionnaire developed to measure the level of functional disability for patients with low back pain
Time frame: At 2 months]
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