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Study identifier: NCT05172739 Synced from ClinicalTrials.gov · July 29, 2026
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Opioid Free Anaesthesia-Analgesia Strategy on Surgical Stress and Immunomodulation in Elective VATS-Lobectomy for NSCLC

Condition: Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome · Postoperative Pain, Acute · Postoperative Pain, Chronic  ·  Sponsor: University of Crete

PhasePhase 4
Planned participants70
Who can joinAll sexes, 18 Years to 80 Years
Healthy volunteersNo

About this study

Lobectomy is a major, high-risk surgical procedure that in addition to one-lung ventilation (OLV) exerts a potent surgical stress response. An overwhelming immune cell recruitment may lead to excessive tissue damage, peripheral organ injury and immunoparesis. The effect of anesthesia on the immune system is modest, compared to the effects induced by major surgery. However, to an immunocompromised patient, due to cancer and/or other comorbidities, the immunosuppressive effects of anesthesia may increase the incidence of post-operative infections, morbidity, and mortality. Exogenous opioids have been correlated with immunosuppression, opioid-induced hyperalgesia, and respiratory depression, with deleterious outcomes. An Opioid-Free Anaesthesia-Analgesia (OFA-A) strategy is based on the administration of a variety of anaesthetic/analgesic and other pharmacological agents with different mechanisms of action, including immunomodulating and anti-inflammatory effects. Our basic hypothesis is that the implementation of a perioperative multimodal OFA-A strategy, will lead to an attenuated surgical stress response and attenuated immunosuppression, compared to a conventional Opioid-Based Anaesthesia-Analgesia (OBA-A) strategy. The aforementioned effects, are presumed to be associated with equal or improved analgesia and decreased incidence of postoperative infections compared to a perioperative OBA-A technique.

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Periklis Vasilos, MD  ·  00306978702023  ·  p.vassilos@gmail.com

Georgios Stefanakis, MD, PhD  ·  00306978779726  ·  G_Stefanakis@yahoo.com

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Locations (1)

University of CreteHeraklion, Crete, GreeceRecruiting

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