NCT05537883CompletedPhase 1
Transversus Abdominis Plane (TAP) Block Using Liposomal Bupivacaine in Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Patients
Single Blinded Randomized Trial of Transversus Abdominis Plane Block Using Liposomal Bupivacaine in Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Patients
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 11 Jun 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
To investigate if laparoscopic Transversus Abdominis Plane (TAP) block using plain bupivacaine is equivalent to using liposomal bupivacaine in patients undergoing metabolic and bariatric surgery. The study will see if the plain bupivacaine group will be equivalent in terms of length of stay, Morphine Milligram Equivalents, Pain scores and patient satisfaction, but cost less.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Phase (registry)
- Phase 1
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 72 (actual)
- First submitted
- 12 Sept 2022
- Start date
- Nov 2022
- Primary completion date
- Dec 2023
- Lead sponsor
- Wake Forest University Health Sciences
- Diseases
- Obesity
- NCT number
- NCT05537883
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional · Phase 1
- Participants enrolled: 72
- From Nov 2022 to the primary completion date, Dec 2023
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Patients undergoing concomitant hiatal hernia repair or ventral hernia repair or cholecystectomy at time of primary metabolic surgery
Other
- Patients undergoing duodenal switch procedures
- Patients with chronic opioid use
Who the study is looking for
- age \> 18 years
- Participants who can give written informed consent and willing to comply with all study-related procedures.
- Patients undergoing primary sleeve gastrectomy or roux-en-y gastric bypass
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wake Forest University Health Sciences Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Winston-Salem | United States | Unknown status |
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