# Optimal Timing of Intercostal Nerve Blocks During Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgeries

> **NCT02980835** · PHASE4 · COMPLETED · sponsor: **University at Buffalo** · enrollment: 36 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery
- Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery

## Interventions

- **DRUG:** Normal Saline
- **DRUG:** Ropivacaine
- **DRUG:** Epinephrine
- **DRUG:** Dexamethasone

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT02980835
- **Lead sponsor:** University at Buffalo
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** PHASE4
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** COMPLETED
- **Start date:** 2016-09-28
- **Primary completion:** 2022-03-30
- **Final completion:** 2022-03-30
- **Target enrollment:** 36 (ACTUAL)
- **Last updated:** 2022-09-22

## Collaborators

- [object Object]

## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02980835

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT02980835, "Optimal Timing of Intercostal Nerve Blocks During Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgeries". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-09 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT02980835. Licensed CC0.

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