Stopped: Unable to continue enrollment due to lack of resources (research coordinator no longer available).
The investigators want to know whether injecting numbing medication on the side of the neck (also called superficial cervical plexus block) can prevent or reduce shoulder pain that patients commonly experience after lung surgery. The investigators will perform the injection at the end of your surgery while the subjects are still under general anesthesia and before they wake up. The investigators will use a local anesthetic (bupivacaine or MarcaineĀ®) that is routinely used for skin infiltration of the surgical wounds. This study is randomized and single-blind. This means that subjects will be assigned by chance (like flipping a coin) to receive either an injection with active medication (bupivacaine), or no injection at all.
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Incidence of Post-thoracotomy/Scopy Ipsilateral Shoulder Pain
Timeframe: 24 hours after lung surgery