Contact information
Type
Scientific
Primary contact
Mr U R Nair
ORCID ID
Contact details
Yorkshire Heart Centre
Jubilee Building
Great George Street
Leeds
LS1 3EX
United Kingdom
+44 (0)113 392 5792
Unnikrishnan.Nair@leedsth.nhs.uk
Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
N0436130522
Study information
Scientific title
Assessment of pain and other benefits following ministernotomy for cardiac surgery: a prospective randomised trial
Acronym
Study hypothesis
To determine the benefit obtained in patients who underwent ministernotomy for cardiac surgery.
Ethics approval
Not provided at time of registration
Study design
Randomised controlled trial
Primary study design
Interventional
Secondary study design
Randomised controlled trial
Trial setting
Hospitals
Trial type
Treatment
Patient information sheet
Not available in web format, please use the contact details below to request a patient information sheet
Condition
Surgery: Cardiovascular
Intervention
Random allocation to [a] treatment a [b] treatment b (Small chest incision vs full chest incision).
Intervention type
Procedure/Surgery
Phase
Not Specified
Drug names
Primary outcome measure
Pain, total blood loss, analgesia requirement, lung function.
Secondary outcome measures
Not provided at time of registration
Overall trial start date
01/05/2003
Overall trial end date
01/12/2008
Reason abandoned (if study stopped)
Eligibility
Participant inclusion criteria
All adult cardiac surgical cases under the care of Mr R U Nair requiring sternotomy.
Participant type
Patient
Age group
Adult
Gender
Both
Target number of participants
Not provided at time of registration
Participant exclusion criteria
Not provided at time of registration
Recruitment start date
01/05/2003
Recruitment end date
01/12/2008
Locations
Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
Trial participating centre
Yorkshire Heart Centre
Leeds
LS1 3EX
United Kingdom
Sponsor information
Organisation
Department of Health
Sponsor details
Richmond House
79 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2NL
United Kingdom
Sponsor type
Government
Website
Funders
Funder type
Government
Funder name
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (UK)
Alternative name(s)
Funding Body Type
Funding Body Subtype
Location
Results and Publications
Publication and dissemination plan
Not provided at time of registration
Intention to publish date
Participant level data
Not provided at time of registration
Basic results (scientific)
Publication list