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Opioid Free Anesthesia and Major Spine Surgery

NCT03417193 · Lebanese American University

Closed to entry
Status
Not accepting participants
Not applicable
Phase
48
Target enrolment
1
Study sites
Outside the US

What it is testing

Summary

This study compares the intraoperative opioid free anesthesia approach in multilevel spine posterior instrumentation surgery to a conventional opioid-based anesthesia. Half of participants will receive opioid free anesthesia with dexmedetomidine, lidocaine and ketamine while the other half will receive opioid based anesthesia with fentanyl, remi-fentanyl and ketamine

Summary as written by the trial’s own sponsor and published on ClinicalTrials.gov API v2. It is the sponsor’s description, reproduced unedited, not an assessment by this site.

What counts as success

Primary outcome measures

  • Postoperative morphine consumption

    Measured over 48 hours

A trial succeeds or fails on its primary outcome, declared in advance. Everything else it reports is secondary by definition.

Who can take part

Eligibility, as published

18 Years to 80 Years
Ages
All
Sex
Not accepted
Healthy volunteers
Inclusion Criteria: * Age group: 18-80 years old * American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA )class I, II and III * Elective spine posterior instrumentation surgery of at least two levels. Exclusion Criteria: * Renal, hepatic or cardiac insufficiency. * Alcohol or drug abuse. * Psychiatric disease. * Allergy or contraindication to any of the study drugs. * Inability to comprehend pain assessment or inability to use a Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA) device.

Where

1 study site

FacilityCityRegionCountry
LAU Medical CenterBeirut—Lebanon

On the registry

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NCT03417193 on ClinicalTrials.gov →

Last updated in the registry 2023-02-21. Registry records change; this page reflects the data build of 2026-08-25.

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