ConditionPerineal Pain
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18-60
SponsorAssiut University
About this trial
Our primary goal will be to investigate the analgesic efficacy of ultrasound (US)-assisted caudal epidural PRF (pulsed radiofrequency)( stimulation in patients with perineal or anal pain cancer patients using (visual analog scale (VAS) scores from 0 to 10 at the baseline (pretreatment), two, four, and eight weeks; secondary outcomes will be the effects on opioid use and total opioid use in the 24 h, quality of life, patient satisfaction and opioid and intervention related side effects.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
American Society of Anesthesiology physical status of I or III (ASA), of both sex
cancer-related anal or perineal pain
Disqualifiers
coagulopathies
allergies to the contrast dye
patients with moderate or significant cardiac/respiratory disease or hepatic
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- US assisted caudal epidural pulsed radiofrequency
Treatment groups
40 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groupsSponsors and collaborators
Source ClinicalTrials.gov