About this trial
Regional anaesthesia combined with general anaesthesia has become common in the perioperative management of breast cancer surgery patients. Regional techniques have been recognised to provide excellent post-operative analgesia. It enhances multi-modal analgesia regimes while being opioid sparing, reducing incidence of post-operative nausea and vomiting and allowing earlier mobilisation/discharge and improving treatment success. Therefore identifying the correct regional anaesthetic technique for this group of patients is important in providing optimum peri-operative care.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
ASA classification: I-III
BMI < 35 kg/m2
Day surgery procedure
Disqualifiers
Prior ipsilateral breast surgery, excluding lumpectomy
Pre-existing neurological deficit or peripheral neuropathy involving the ipsilateral chest
Severe, poorly controlled cardiac conditions, significant arrhythmias, severe valvular heart diseases
Severe, poorly controlled respiratory conditions (severe COPD, severe interstitial lung disease, severe / poorly controlled asthma)
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Erector spinae plane block
- Placebo Block