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NCT03862612: ESPvSAP
Efficacy of SAP Block Versus ESP Block in VATS Surgery
NA trial testing regional anaesthesia with Levobupivicaine 0.25% 30mls with two methods either erector spinae plane block or serratus anterior plane block in Regional Anesthesia Morbidity in 60 participants. Completed in 2 April 2020.
5 March 2020
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | Mater Misericordiae University Hospital |
|---|---|
| Phase | NA |
| Status | Completed |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | randomized |
| Design | parallel |
| Masking | triple |
| Primary purpose | treatment |
| Enrollment | 60 |
| Start date | 5 June 2019 |
| Primary completion | 5 March 2020 |
| Estimated completion | 2 April 2020 |
| Sites | 1 location across Ireland |
Drugs / interventions tested
- regional anaesthesia with Levobupivicaine 0.25% 30mls with two methods either erector spinae plane block or serratus anterior plane block
Conditions studied
- Regional Anesthesia Morbidity — all drugs for Regional Anesthesia Morbidity →
Sponsor
Mater Misericordiae University Hospital
Who can join
18 and older, any sex, with Regional Anesthesia Morbidity. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
During VATS (Video assisted thoracic surgery) small incisions are made in the patient's chest through which a camera and instruments are inserted to allow a lung operation to be performed. Often patients experience a substantial amount of pain and difficult recovery after this type of operation. Anaesthesiologists sometimes use "Regional Anaesthesia" to minimise the pain and help patient recovery after the operation. This involves injecting local anaesthesia into the nerves around the chest wall to effectively numb that part of the chest. There is a variety of different locations on the chest wall where the local anaesthetic can be deposited and no study has measured whether one technique is better than the other in terms of improving patients' recovery experience. Our study compares two new techniques for Regional Anaesthesia after this type of surgery. Participants will be randomly assigned (like tossing a coin) to receive either a SAP (Serratus Anterior Plane) or ESP (Erector Spinae Plane) Block. Both techniques are described within last five years, but have never been compared for chest surgery
Publications & conference data
1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):
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Comparing erector spinae plane block with serratus anterior plane block for minimally invasive thoracic surgery: a randomised clinical trial.
Finnerty DT, McMahon A, McNamara JR, Hartigan SD, et al · · 2020 · cited 154× · PMID 32660716 · DOI 10.1016/j.bja.2020.06.020
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Other Mater Misericordiae University Hospital trials
Trials by the same sponsor.
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- NCT04370951 — Efficacy of the Erector Spinae Plane Block in Posterior Thoraco- Lumbar Spinal Decompression Surgery · NA · unknown
Verify against primary sources
- ClinicalTrials.gov — authoritative US registry record
- WHO ICTRP — international registry index
- EU Clinical Trials Register
- Sponsor press releases (Google)
- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03862612 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
- Publications: Europe PMC API search by NCT ID, retrieved 10 June 2026
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- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by Mater Misericordiae University Hospital
- Last refreshed: 4 May 2020
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