Patch before surgery may cut painkiller use after lung operations
NCT ID NCT07591220
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tests whether placing a loxoprofen sodium patch on the skin before video-assisted lung surgery can reduce pain and the need for strong painkillers afterward. About 156 adults aged 18 to 64 having lung surgery will be randomly assigned to get the patch or a placebo. The main goal is to see if the patch lowers the amount of rescue pain medication needed in the first 48 hours after surgery.
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- Phase
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Not a phased trial
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- Participants
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About 156 people
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- Expected to start
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Jun 2026
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- Expected to finish
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Apr 2028
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Other sponsor
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18 to 64 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Patients scheduled for elective Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for wedge resection, segmentectomy and lobectomy of the lungs under general anesthesia; 2. 8 to 64 years old; 3. American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status of I-III; 4. Patients must be able to understand the nature and potential personal consequences of the clinical trial and cooperate with follow-up investigations 5. signing of the informed consent form. Exclusion Criteria: 1. History of chronic pain syndrome of any cause and mental illness; 2. Excessive alcohol or drug abuse, chronic opioid use (more than 2 weeks or 3 days per week for more than 1 month), use of drugs with confirmed or suspected sedative or analgesic effects, or use of any painkiller within 24 h before surgery; 3. History of hypertension (Grade 3, extremely high risk); 4. Pregnancy or breastfeeding; 5. Extreme body mass index (BMI) (\< 15 or \> 35); 6. Participation in another interventional trial that interferes with the intervention or outcome of this trial; 7. Digestive system diseases (such as peptic ulcers, gastric bleeding); 8. Patients with coronary artery disease; 9. Patients with renal impairment (serum creatinine \> 176 µmol/L) and abnormal liver function(alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and/or aspartate aminotransferase (AST) \> 2× the upper limit of normal (ULN) or total bilirubin (TBIL) ≥ 1.5×ULN); 10. Subjects with coagulation dysfunction (prothrombin time or activated partial thromboplastin time is higher than the normal threshold) or patients who are taking oral anticoagulants for other medical reasons and have not stopped it before surgery, such as warfarin or new anticoagulants rivaroxaban or dabigatran; 11. Patients with a history of allergy to anyone of the study drugs;
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