Lidocaine 5% Patch for Treatment of Acute Pain After Robotic Cardiac Surgery and Prevention of Persistent Incisional Pain: A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blind Trial.

Journal: Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.)
PMID: 26176878

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: To test the hypotheses that lidocaine 5% patches decrease the severity of acute pain and incidence of persistent incisional pain after robotic cardiac valve surgery.

Authors

  • Bruce Vrooman
    Department of Pain Management, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
  • Leonardo Kapural
    Carolinas Pain Institute at Brookstown, Wake Forest University, School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.
  • Sheryar Sarwar
    Department of Family Medicine, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
  • Edward J Mascha
    Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
  • Tomislav Mihaljevic
    Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
  • Marc Gillinov
    Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
  • Shahbaz Qavi
    Resident, Anesthesiology Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
  • Daniel I Sessler
    Michael Cudahy Professor & Chair, Department of OUTCOMES RESEARCH, Anesthesiology Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

Keywords

External Resources

Popular Topics
Recent Journals