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Ropivacaine

Serratus Anterior Plane Block was performed just before the start of surgery after anesthetic induction through ultrasound-guidance. 20ml of 0.375% ropivacaine was slowly injected between the fascia of serratus anterior and latissimus dorsi near 5th rib.

Intercostal Nerve Block was performed just before closing the surgical incision while looking directly at the affected intercostal space. 10ml of 0.375% ropivacaine was delivered evenly at anterior and posterior intercostal spaces from the port site.

Thoracoscopic lobectomy was performed for lung cancer

Thoracoscopic lobectomy

Jimin Heo

Saeyoung Kim

A prospective randomized controlled study was undertaken to compare the postoperative analgesic effect between ultrasound-guided serratus anterior plane block and intercostal nerve block after video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy.

Post-thoracotomy pain is one of the most notorious postsurgical pains that one can experience. The pain is known to last for an extensive period of time with significantly high intensity.

In field of thoracic surgery, video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery has been played an important role in alleviating the postoperative pain. In field of anesthesiology, various attempts to alleviate post-thoracotomy pain have been tried along advancement of thoracic surgical techniques. It began with postoperative medication of non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs, opioids and progressed into implementations such as local analgesia, thoracic epidural block, paravertebral block, intercostal nerve block, interpleural block and serratus anterior plane block.

Many analgesic methods have been applied to alleviate postoperative pain in patients who have undergone thoracoscopic surgeries. However, there are no prospective randomized controlled studies between intercostal nerve block and serratus anterior plane block in video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy. The main purpose of this study is to compare and analyze the effects between conventional intercostal nerve block and newly introduced serratus anterior plane block in lung cancer patients who have undergone video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy.

This prospective study will discover the efficacy and differences between two methods.

Serratus Anterior Plane Block Versus Intercostal Nerve Block for Postoperative Analgesia

Serratus Anterior Plane Block vs. Intercostal Nerve Block for Postoperative Analgesic Effect After Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Lobectomy: A Randomized Prospective Study

Postoperative pain will be evaluated using a numeric rating scale (0 being no pain, 10 being worst pain imaginable)

If the participant has additional analgesic requirement postoperatively, ketorolac 30mg will be injected intravenously when numeric rating scale score is measured as 4-5, and fentanyl 50# is injected when numeric rating scale score is over 6.

Kyungpook National University Hospital

Associate professor

Respiratory Tract Neoplasms

Thoracic Neoplasms

Lung Diseases

Respiratory Tract Diseases

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Whey Protein

Multimodal prehabilitation strategy includes physical exercise (moderate aerobic exercise combined with resistance exercise and respiratory training ), nutritional suggestion and optimization(whey protein supplement), and psychological therapy, as well as conventional guidance (including preoperative anesthesia assessment, drug treatment recommendations for chronic disease, quit smoking and abstinence). Patients are advised to record daily exercises and adherence to nutritional, psychological and other recommendations. Short message interviews are sent to patients twice a week to optimize adherence and promote feedback.

Aerobic training strategy includes the same guided individualized moderate aerobic exercise as the multimodal prehabilitation group, as well as the conventional guidance. Patients are advised to record daily exercises. Short message interviews are sent to patients twice a week to optimize adherence and promote feedback.

Multimodal prehabilitation group

Aerobic training group

Yuguang HUANG, M.D.

Zijia Liu, MD

In recent years, many studies have shown that prehabilitation based on aerobic training strategies could have a positive effect on the recovery of postoperative functional capacity in patients undergoing lung cancer surgery. Investigators are proposing a prospective randomized controlled trial to compare the impact of a short home-based multimodal prehabilitation strategy to preoperative aerobic training on patients scheduled for video-assisted thorascopic lobectomy for lung cancer. The multimodal prehabilitation strategy includes guided aerobic and resistance exercise, breathing exercises, nutrition supplement and physiology management preoperatively, while the aerobic strategy offers the same aerobic training guidance without the other parts. The prehabilitation lasts 2-3 weeks in our center. Investigators follow-up patients until 30 days after surgery, to investigate whether multimodal prehabilitation strategy differs from aerobic training program in postoperative functional capability improvement, health-related quality of life scorings, incidence of postoperative complications and other outcomes.

This is a randomized controlled trial comparing the impact of a short home-based multimodal prehabilitaiton strategy to preoperative aerobic training program on patients undertaking video-assisted thoracoscopic (VATS) lobectomy for lung cancer.

The purpose of prehabilitation is to enhance an individual's functional capacity to reach the optimal physiological state before surgery, helping them withstand the stress of surgery and receive an enhanced recovery post operation. Recent studies have shown that trimodal or multimodal prehabilitation strategy including exercise, diet and psychologic guidance could improve postoperative functional recovery for patients undergoing colorectal resection. However, researches regarding to the effect of multi-modal prehabilitation in other types of operations remain scarce.

Studies have shown that the postoperative functional capacity decreases in patients undergoing lung cancer surgery. Therefore, many clinical trials were designed to explore the impact of prehabilitation on these patients, and many of them yielded positive results, showing preoperative exercise for patients undergoing lung cancer surgery is safe and beneficial in postoperative functional capacity recovery. However, the majority of the trials conducted adopted preoperative exercises, specifically aerobic exercises, as the sole means of prehabilitation. In 2017, our team conducted a randomized controlled trial (registration number NCT03068507) to examine the efficacy of a 2-week multimodal home-based prehabilitation strategy in patients undergoing VATS lobectomy for lung cancer. The preliminary results indicate that patients who received the short multimodal home-based prehabilitation have a significantly higher 6-minute walk distance (6MWD) perioperatively.

Investigators are proposing a new randomized controlled trial to compare the efficacy of a short multimodal home-based prehabilitation with the sole aerobic prehabilitation strategy adopted by the previous studies.

A total of 100 patients scheduled to have elective VATS lobectomy for primary lung cancer will be recruited in this research at Peking Union Medical College Hospital. After informed consent is obtained, the patients will be evenly assigned to two groups randomly based on computer-generated sequence, the multimodal prehabilitation group and the aerobic prehabilitation group. The random allocation will be concealed using sealed opaque envelops.

The multimodal group will receive an individualized prehabilitation strategy after a complete assessment, including aerobic and resistance exercise, nutritional optimization, and psychological therapy, as well as conventional guidance. All patients will receive an instruction booklet with details in text and pictures, and will be asked to complete standard diaries in the booklet. The length of prehabilitation will be 2-3 weeks, determined by the waiting time till surgery alone.

For the multimodal group, prehabilitation strategy is as follows: 1) a 30-minute aerobic exercise at least 3 times a week, in the form of jogging, power walking or cycling, according to the patients' individual choice; 2) a guided resistance exercise at least twice a week, using a pull strap distributed by investigators to accomplish 4 pre-set resistance posture; 3) breathing exercise at least 3 times per day, lasting over 10 minutes, in the form of guided effective coughing, blowing up a small balloon or using the respiratory exerciser distributed by investigators; 4) nutritional advice and whey protein supplement 1hour prior to exercising (20g/day for male and 15g/day for female patients); 5) psychological therapy by listening to soothing music or radio and other relaxing activities. Patients are advised to record daily exercises and adherence to nutritional, psychological and other recommendations in a prehabilitation journal distributed by investigators. Standardized short message interviews are sent to patients twice a week to optimize adherence and promote timely feedback.

The aerobic group will receive the same guidance in the individualized home-based aerobic exercise strategy as the multimodal group, but not in the other aspects. These patients are also advised to keep a prehabilitation journal recording daily exercises and will receive the same short message interviews twice a week.

All patients enrolled will receive the conventional guidance, including preoperative anesthesia assessment, drug treatment recommendations for chronic disease, quit smoking and abstinence. And patients are also provided some useful information about anesthesia and surgery process.

The patients and trial personnel will not be blinded to the allocation regarding to the nature of the intervention. The outcome assessors will independently collect the outcome data without the knowledge of the allocation.

The primary outcome will be post-operative 6-minute walk distance (6MWD), measured as functional walking capacity, at 30 days postoperatively). The secondary outcomes include perioperative 6MWD (1 day before surgery, 30 days postoperatively), pulmonary function (1 day before surgery, 30 days postoperatively), hospital anxiety and depression scale (HADS), World Health Organization disability assessment schedule II (WHODAS 2.0) score, postoperative quality of recovery score -15 (QoR-15) score and prognosis information (mortality and morbidity, length of hospital stay, ICU stay time, duration of chest tube, etc.).

Comparing the Impact of Multimodal Prehabilitation to Aerobic Training on Patients Undergoing Thoracoscopic Lobectomy

The Comparison of a Short Home-based Multimodal Prehabilitation Strategy to Preoperative Aerobic Training Program on the Perioperative Functional Capacity and Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Thoracoscopic Lobectomy

Use 6-minute walk distance (6MWD) to evaluate the physical functional capability objectively. The primary outcome will be analyzed after stratification by age and baseline functional capacity.

Evaluate the impact of prehabilitation on functional capability before surgery.

Evaluate the recovery of pulmonary capacity. Forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1) and forced vital capacity (FVC) will be measured in liters, and FEV1/FVC will be calculated with the FEV1 and FVC value and reported in percentage.

The HADS is a questionnaire composed of 14 questions to screen for anxiety and depression. The questionnaire features 7 questions on anxiety and seven on depression. The maximum score for either anxiety or depression is 21 and the minimum for either is 0. The severity of anxiety and depression correlates with the scoring. HADS will be used to evaluate the mental capability recovery after surgery.

WHODAS 2.0 is a patient self-report assessment tool that evaluates the patient's ability to perform activities in six domains of functioning over the previous 30 days. Each item from the six domains is rated using a 5-point Likert scale (1 = no difficulty, 2 = mild difficulty, 3 = moderate difficulty, 4 = severe difficulty, 5 = extreme difficulty). These are then calculated to get a score representing global disability. WHODAS 2.0 will be adopted to make the the global evaluation of patients' disability before and after surgery.

QoR-15 is an easy-to-use score for assessing the quality of post-operative recovery. It is a questionnaire featuring 15 items, each of which has a scale of 0 to 10. Higher scores of QoR-15 indicate better recovery quality after surgery. QoR-15 will be used in this study to evaluate the intermediate phase of recovery.

Evaluate postoperative all-cause mortality, reported in percentage.

Evaluate the incidence of major postoperative complications including atelectasis, pneumonia, respiratory failure, sepsis, septic shock, which will be all reported in percentage.

Evaluate postoperative length of hospital stay, reported in days.

Evaluate postoperative ICU stay time, reported in days.

Evaluate duration of chest tube placement, reported in days.

Peking Union Medical College Hospital

The patients will receive the conventional clinical guidance according to Peking Union Medical College Hospital, including preoperative anesthesia assessment, drug treatment recommendations for chronic disease, quit smoking and abstinence.

Trimodal prehabilitation strategy includes physical exercise (moderate aerobic exercise combined with resistance exercise and respiratory training ), nutritional suggestion and optimization（whey protein supplement）, and psychological therapy, as well as conventional guidance (including preoperative anesthesia assessment, drug treatment recommendations for chronic disease, quit smoking and abstinence).

Trimodal prehabilitation management

Yuguang HUANG, MD

The process of enhancing an individual's functional capacity to optimize physiologic reserves before an operation to withstand the stress of surgery has been coined prehabilitation. This is a prospective randomized controlled trail, designed to explore if the patients who take thoracoscopic lobectomy for lung cancer will benefit from family trimodal prehabilitation strategy. Trimodal prehabilitation includes exercise, nutrition supplement and physiology management preoperatively. It starts from the day that patients decide to take the surgery until the day before surgery, lasting 2\~3 week in our hospital. And we follow-up patients until 8 weeks after surgery to investigate if trimodal prehabilitation strategy can improve the postoperative functional recovery，reduce complications and improve prognosis.

This is a prospective randomized controlled trail, which focus on the impact of family prehabilitaiton strategy on the patients undertaking thoracoscopic lobectomy for lung cancer.

The process of enhancing an individual's functional capacity to optimize physiologic reserves before an operation to withstand the stress of surgery has been coined prehabilitation. It has been confirm that trimodal prehabilitation strategy including exercise, diet and psychology guidance could improve postoperative functional recovery after surgery for patients undergoing colorectal resection. But there has been no research about the impact of trimodal prehabilitation in other operations.

Although many clinical studies have confirmed that preoperative exercise for patients undergoing lung cancer surgery is safe and useful, but so far there are few studies investigated perioperative functional capability in population undergoing thoracoscopic lobectomy. And no study extends preoperative exercise to trimodal prehabilitation adding nutritional and psychological management. In addition, the prehabilitation strategy in previous studies usually takes 4\~8 weeks. However, patient suspected of malignant tumor often wouldn't wait for such a long period. We therefore designed this study to investigate if a 2\~3 week family trimodal prehabilitation strategy benefits the patients undergoing thoracoscopic lobectomy for lung caner.

There will be 100 patients awaiting elective thoracoscopic lobectomy for primary lung cancer recruited in this research at Peking Union Medical College Hospital. After informed consent was obtained, the patients will be divided into two groups randomly, the prehibilitation group and control group.

The prehabilitation group will receive an individual trimodal prehabilitation strategy after a complete assessment, including physical exercise, nutritional optimization, and psychological therapy, as well as conventional guidance. The length of prehabilitation was determined by the waiting time till surgery alone. The control group will receive the conventional guidance, including preoperative anesthesia assessment, drug treatment recommendations for chronic disease, quit smoking and abstinence. Both of the groups are also provided some useful information about anesthesia and surgery process.

The functional capability will be examined for both groups at several time points (baseline, the day before surgery, 1st, 2nd and 3rd day postoperatively, 4 weeks postoperatively and 8 weeks postoperatively) The primary end point is functional walking capacity as measured by the 6 minutes walking distance (6MWD) 4 weeks postoperatively. The secondary end points include lung function improvement (baseline vs. preoperative) ， self-reported physical activity, health-related quality of life scales and prognosis information (postoperative complications, length of hospital stay, ICU stay time, hospitalization expenses, etc.).

patients were randomly assigned to the prehabilitation group and control group by computer-based random numbers concealed in sealed envelopes

The participant didn't know their group allocation. The doctor of assessment was blinded to group allocation.

The Impact of Trimodal Prehabilitation Strategy on Patients Undergoing Thoracoscopic Lobectomy

The Impact of Trimodal Prehabilitation Strategy on Perioperative Functional Capability and Prognosis of Patients Undergoing Thoracoscopic Lobectomy for Lung Cancer：a Randomized Controlled Trail

Use 6-minute-walking-distance (6MWD) to evaluate the physical functional capability objectively.

Evaluate the intermediate phase of recovery

Evaluate the late phase physical and mental capability recovery after surgery

Evaluate the global disability in the late phase of recovery

Evaluate the late phase mental capability recovery after surgery

Study title	NCT ID	Conditions	Interventions	Eligibility	Organization
Serratus Anterior Plane Block Versus Intercostal Nerve Block for Postoperative Analgesia	NCT04250272	Analgesia Postoperative P... Lung Cancer	Thoracoscopic l...	18 Years - 80 Years	Kyungpook National University Hospital
Comparing the Impact of Multimodal Prehabilitation to Aerobic Training on Patients Undergoing Thoracoscopic Lobectomy	NCT04049942	Perioperative Recovery Prehabilitation Thoracoschisis Lobectomy Lung Cancer	Multimodal preh... Aerobic trainin...	18 Years - 70 Years	Peking Union Medical College Hospital
Serratus Anterior Plane Block Versus Intercostal Nerve Block for Postoperative Analgesia	NCT04250272	Analgesia Postoperative P... Lung Cancer	Thoracoscopic l...	18 Years - 80 Years	Kyungpook National University Hospital
The Impact of Trimodal Prehabilitation Strategy on Patients Undergoing Thoracoscopic Lobectomy	NCT03068507	Perioperative Recovery Prehabilitation Thoracoschisis Lung Cancer Lobectomy	Trimodal prehab...	18 Years - 70 Years	Peking Union Medical College Hospital
Comparing the Impact of Multimodal Prehabilitation to Aerobic Training on Patients Undergoing Thoracoscopic Lobectomy	NCT04049942	Perioperative Recovery Prehabilitation Thoracoschisis Lobectomy Lung Cancer	Multimodal preh... Aerobic trainin...	18 Years - 70 Years	Peking Union Medical College Hospital

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