Clinical Trial: The Erector Spinae Plane Block For Gastrointestinal Malignancy Pain Treatment (EGIPT)

U.S., Oct. 9 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07211386) titled 'The Erector Spinae Plane Block For Gastrointestinal Malignancy Pain Treatment (EGIPT)' on Oct. 01.

Brief Summary: This study will target patients with gastrointestinal (GI) malignancy who present to any of 4 Penn Medicine emergency departments (EDs) with intractable abdominal pain. We will offer eligible patients an erector spinae plane block (ESPB), a regional anesthesia technique which is already offered to such patients in the ED at the University of Pennsylvania Healthy System (UPHS), for their intractable abdominal pain. We will compare the outcomes of this prospective cohort of patients to a matched historical control of patien...