Postoperative Rehabilitation After Cardiac Surgery in Patients at Risk of Respiratory Complications. Effects of a Continuous Bi-laterosternal Infusion of Ropivacaine Through Multihole Catheters (BLS-Sterno)
Scheduled Cardiac Surgery, Sternotomy, Elderly Patients
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Scheduled Cardiac Surgery focused on measuring Sternotomy, Anesthesia, Post-operative pain
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Scheduled cardiac surgery (aortic or mitral valve replacement, or coronary bypass surgery) with sternotomy.
- Patients will be at risk of noncardiac postoperative complications, i.e. age over 75, BMI over 30, pulmonary disease, or active smoking habit
Exclusion Criteria:
- surgery in emergency
- thoracotomy
- cardiac graft
- redo
- aortic dissection
- age over 85
- pregnancy
- patient's refusal
- minor or adult under legal protection
- psychiatric ongoing disease
- addiction to opiates
- ongoing opiate treatment
- inability to use a PCA device
- respiratory insufficiency (Vital capacity or maximal expired volume per sec. < 50% of the expected value, or mean PAP > 50 mmHg)
- cardiac failure or EF < 40% or intra-aortic balloon use
- pulmonary hypertension over 50 mmHg
- severe renal insufficiency
- history of allergy or intolerance to: morphine, acetaminophen, ropivacaine.
Sites / Locations
- CHU Clermont-Ferrand
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
Placebo Comparator
Ropivacaïne
Placebo
Prospective, controlled, randomised, parallel, single-centre, single-blinded trial, comparing to a control (conventional care with no locoregional anaesthesia) an infusion of ropivacaine through two multihole catheters placed lateral to the sternum. In both groups, postoperative analgesia will be achieved by paracetamol plus titrated then self-administered intravenous morphine.
Prospective, controlled, randomised, parallel, single-centre, single-blinded trial, comparing to a control (conventional care with no locoregional anaesthesia) an infusion of ropivacaine through two multihole catheters placed lateral to the sternum. In both groups, postoperative analgesia will be achieved by paracetamol plus titrated then self-administered intravenous morphine.