Erector Spinae Plane Blockade in Pediatric Scoliosis Surgery Patients
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Erector Spinae Plane Blockade.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Scoliosis; Juvenile, Scoliosis; Adolescence. Basic parameters: up to 18 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- United States
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Pediatric Scoliosis Surgery: Enhanced Recovery With Erector Spinae Plane Blockade Utilizing Surgically Placed Catheters
Overview
Providing effective analgesia after spinal fusion for idiopathic scoliosis remains a challenge with significant practice variation existing among high volume spine surgery centers. Even in the era of multimodal analgesia, opioids are the primary analgesics used for pain control after pediatric scoliosis surgery, but have multiple known adverse effects. The erector spinae plane block (ESPB) is a newly described fascial plane block performed by injecting local anesthetic between the erector spinae muscle and the transverse process. Additionally, there are case reports describing the ESPB as part of a multi-modal analgesic plan in adult degenerative spine surgery as well as adult spinal deformity surgery, demonstrating effective analgesia and no clinical motor blockade. Although it is known that the inflammatory reaction plays a crucial role in the mechanism of acute pain after major surgery, the effectiveness of the current regional approach on inflammatory response is not well studied.
Interventions
- Procedure Erector Spinae Plane Blockade
The ESPB is fascial plane block performed by injecting local anesthetic between the erector spinae muscle and the transverse process. Its proposed mechanism of action is via blockade of the dorsal and ventral rami of the thoracic spinal nerves and sympathetic fibers.
Primary outcome measures
- Length of Stay (LOS) [Time frame: Through hospital stay, an average of 5 days]
- Postoperative Opioid Consumption [Time frame: Through hospital stay, an average of 5 days]
- Maximum lidocaine plasma concentration [Cmax] [Time frame: Through hospital stay, an average of 5 days]
- Patient-Reported Pain Scores [Time frame: Through hospital stay, an average of 5 days]
- Inpatient Postoperative Mobility [Time frame: Through hospital stay, an average of 5 days]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- ASA I-III
- Diagnosed with Idiopathic scoliosis
- Undergoing single-stage posterior spinal instrumentation and fusion
Exclusion criteria
- Thorascopic tethering procedure
- Two-stage procedure
- Abnormal developmental profile
- Congenital/neuromuscular scoliosis
- Requiring PICU admission
- Known allergy to lidocaine
- Known cardiac, renal or liver disease or dysfunction
- Pre-existing pain complaints, i.e. on regular analgesic medications
- Current psychiatric diagnosis, e.g. anxiety, depression, eating disorder, defined according to DSM criteria.
- Requiring non-standard post-op pain management
- Any history of seizures
- Unplanned staged procedure
- Weight < 5th centile or > 85th centile for age
- Porphyria
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Single blind
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- Lucille Packard Children's Hospital — Palo Alto
Publications
- Wheeler M, Oderda GM, Ashburn MA, Lipman AG. Adverse events associated with postoperative opioid analgesia: a systematic review. J Pain. 2002 Jun;3(3):159-80. doi: 10.1054/jpai.2002.123652. No abstract available. PMID 14622770
- Sheffer BW, Kelly DM, Rhodes LN, Sawyer JR. Perioperative Pain Management in Pediatric Spine Surgery. Orthop Clin North Am. 2017 Oct;48(4):481-486. doi: 10.1016/j.ocl.2017.06.004. Epub 2017 Jul 15. PMID 28870307
- Forero M, Adhikary SD, Lopez H, Tsui C, Chin KJ. The Erector Spinae Plane Block: A Novel Analgesic Technique in Thoracic Neuropathic Pain. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2016 Sep-Oct;41(5):621-7. doi: 10.1097/AAP.0000000000000451. PMID 27501016
- Kose HC, Kose SG, Thomas DT. Lumbar versus thoracic erector spinae plane block: Similar nomenclature, different mechanism of action. J Clin Anesth. 2018 Aug;48:1. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2018.03.026. Epub 2018 Apr 9. No abstract available. PMID 29649625
- Almeida CR, Oliveira AR, Cunha P. Continuous Bilateral Erector of Spine Plane Block at T8 for Extensive Lumbar Spine Fusion Surgery: Case Report. Pain Pract. 2019 Jun;19(5):536-540. doi: 10.1111/papr.12774. Epub 2019 Mar 15. PMID 30758122
- Kline J, Chin KJ. Modified dual-injection lumbar erector spine plane (ESP) block for opioid-free anesthesia in multilevel lumbar laminectomy. Korean J Anesthesiol. 2019 Apr;72(2):188-190. doi: 10.4097/kja.d.18.00289. Epub 2018 Nov 2. No abstract available. PMID 30392347
- Melvin JP, Schrot RJ, Chu GM, Chin KJ. Low thoracic erector spinae plane block for perioperative analgesia in lumbosacral spine surgery: a case series. Can J Anaesth. 2018 Sep;65(9):1057-1065. doi: 10.1007/s12630-018-1145-8. Epub 2018 Apr 27. PMID 29704223
- Demmy TL, Nwogu C, Solan P, Yendamuri S, Wilding G, DeLeon O. Chest tube-delivered bupivacaine improves pain and decreases opioid use after thoracoscopy. Ann Thorac Surg. 2009 Apr;87(4):1040-6; discussion 1046-7. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.12.099. PMID 19324125
Identifiers
NCT: NCT04153994 · 52852