Efficacy of Ultrasound-assisted Caudal Epidural Pulsed Radiofrequency for Anal Pain in Cancer Patients,
Efficacy of Ultrasound-assisted Caudal Epidural Pulsed Radiofrequency for Anal and Perineal Pain in Cancer Patients, a Prospective Randomized Clinical Study
Assiut University
40 participants
Aug 25, 2023
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
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
Inclusion Criteria2
- American Society of Anesthesiology physical status of I or III (ASA), of both sex
- cancer-related anal or perineal pain
Exclusion Criteria3
- coagulopathies
- allergies to the contrast dye
- patients with moderate or significant cardiac/respiratory disease or hepatic
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Interventions
patients will receive US assisted caudal epidural pulsed radiofrequency and followed up to 8 weeks
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NCT06008899