Clinical Trial: Efficacy of Periarticular Vasoconstrictor Infiltration (PVI) in Reducing Bleeding and Postoperative Pain in Lumbar Fusion Surgery

U.S., April 16 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07530237) titled 'Efficacy of Periarticular Vasoconstrictor Infiltration (PVI) in Reducing Bleeding and Postoperative Pain in Lumbar Fusion Surgery' on March 23.

Brief Summary: This retrospective observational study evaluates the efficacy of periarticular vasoconstrictor infiltration (PVI) in reducing intraoperative bleeding and postoperative pain in adult patients undergoing lumbar fusion surgery at Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau (Barcelona, Spain) from November 2024 to October 2025. PVI, introduced recently as an alternative to erector spinae plane (ESP) block, involves ultrasound-guided infiltration of local anesthetic with epinephrine in d...