Clinical trial NCT05539885: Parasternal Block in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery
Official title: Optimal Timing of Parasternal Intercostal Nerve Block in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Pectointercostal Fascial Plane Block
Keywords: pectointercostal fascial plane block
pediatrics
open cardiac surgery
optimal timing
Lead sponsor: Assiut University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-09-14
Enrollment: 80
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 2
Maximum age (years): 12
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The objective of this study is to determine whether the use of post-incisional surgeon-delivered parasternal block in children undergoing congenital heart surgery is associated with differences in outcomes when compared to ultrasound-guided pre-incisional parasternal block in the form of Pectointercostal fascial plane block (PIFB).

Detailed description: Although many studies have found that pre-incisional parasternal block is effective in preventing postoperative sternotomy pain, we found no randomized controlled trials comparing pre-incisional vs post-incisional parasternal block in pediatric patients except for one retrospective cohort study done by Lisa et al comparing surgeon-delivered local anesthetic wound infiltration vs postoperative bilateral Petco-Intercostal Fascial Blocks. The post-incisional parasternal block may give prolonged postoperative pain control (equivalent to analgesia duration of pre-incisional parasternal block plus the duration of the operative procedure.)

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

Acyanotic Congenital heart disease; ASD (atrial septal defect), VSD (ventricular septal defect), and CAVC (common atrioventricular canal).

Elective open-heart surgery via median sternotomy and under CPB (cardiopulmonary bypass).

Hemodynamic stability (no evidence of heart failure, not on vasoactive drugs, and not on mechanical ventilation.

Exclusion Criteria:

Previous, urgent, or emergent cardiac surgery. Children with cyanotic congenital heart disease. local infection of the skin at the site of needle puncture, Allergy to bupivacaine, Coagulation disorders, Clinically significant liver or kidney disease, Heart failure or severe pulmonary hypertension.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Time to first analgesia request.
timeFrame: 24 hours
measure: Amount of rescue analgesia.
timeFrame: 24 hours
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Postoperative pain score:
timeFrame: at extubation, 2nd, 6th, 12th, 16th, 20th, and 24th hour after extubation.
measure: Intraoperative fentanyl consumption
timeFrame: time of surgery
Other outcomes:
Locations:
Study officials:
affiliation: Assiut University
name: Mohamed Ahmed Ali Ahmed, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Pollak U, Serraf A. Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and Pain Management: After 40 Years in the Desert, Have We Reached the Promised Land? World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg. 2018 May;9(3):315-325. doi: 10.1177/2150135118755977.
citation: Roy N, Parra MF, Brown ML, Sleeper LA, Nathan M, Sefton BA, Baird CW, Mistry KP, Del Nido PJ. Initial experience introducing an enhanced recovery program in congenital cardiac surgery. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2020 Nov;160(5):1313-1321.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2019.10.049. Epub 2019 Oct 24.
citation: Zhang Y, Chen S, Gong H, Zhan B. Efficacy of Bilateral Transversus Thoracis Muscle Plane Block in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Open Cardiac Surgery. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2020 Sep;34(9):2430-2434. doi: 10.1053/j.jvca.2020.02.005. Epub 2020 Feb 11.