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Effects of Erector Spinae Plane Block on Sympathectomy in Off Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Erector Spinae Plane Block for Coronary Artery Disease and 2 related conditions. Completed, enrolled 25 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
Off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (OPCABG) is a bypass method performed on the working heart. Pain is a frequently seen side effect experienced following this surgery. Erector spinae plane block is our analgesia method that the investigators routinely perform prior to the surgery to overcome this problem. In this method, analgesic medication is given via a needle in between the two superficial muscle groups (erector spinae muscles) located in participants back. The investigators believe this method not only provides pain relief, but also is beneficial (dilating) on the vessels that will be used for bypassing the clogged vessels during the surgery. The investigators aimed to measure some parameters in this routine procedure before and after performing the analgesic method with an ultrasound (imaging with sound waves).
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One researcher will record the artery images as explained in the protocol and two researchers will measure the radius and area of those vessels separately. Researchers who are measuring the radius and area of vessels won't know whether those images belong to pre or post- ESP block. The results two researchers measure will be compared statistically and if there are no statistically significant differences, the mean value of their separate recordings will be taken into account for the statistical analysis.