# A Study Investigating Pain Following Single-port or Multi-port Video Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery

> **NCT02556970** · NA · WITHDRAWN · sponsor: **University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust**

## Conditions studied

- Pain, Postoperative

## Interventions

- **PROCEDURE:** Single port VATS
- **DRUG:** Paracetamol
- **DRUG:** Diclofenac
- **DEVICE:** Camera (5mm diameter 30 degree videothoracoscope)
- **DEVICE:** Forceps grasper
- **DRUG:** 0.25% Levobupivicaine intercostal nerve block

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT02556970
- **Lead sponsor:** University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** WITHDRAWN
- **Start date:** —
- **Primary completion:** 2015-09
- **Final completion:** —
- **Target enrollment:** 0 (ACTUAL)
- **Why stopped:** Study never started and was abandoned.
- **Last updated:** 2016-11-15

## Collaborators

- [object Object]

## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02556970

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT02556970, "A Study Investigating Pain Following Single-port or Multi-port Video Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-02 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT02556970. Licensed CC0.

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