PAINLESS: Placebo vs. Erector Spinae Plane Block for Medical Thoracoscopy

33 patients completed a triple-blind randomized trial evaluating the Erector Spinae Plane Block for post-procedural pain after medical thoracoscopy. The study was terminated early due to a lack of perceived clinical benefit and provider bias, finding no significant difference in pain scores or opioid requirements between the bupivacaine and placebo groups. This dataset provides the supplementary material for the PAINLESS study, containing clinical outcome measures from a terminated trial.

Use Cases

• Re-analyzing trial outcomes for post-procedural pain scores based on Visual Analog Scale (VAS) and numerical ratings
• Comparing opioid requirement and quality of recovery (QoR-15) metrics between intervention and control groups
• Studying the impact of early trial termination on clinical conclusions in anesthesia research
• Benchmarking pain management data for patients undergoing pleural biopsy without pleurodesis

Strengths

• Data originates from a prospective, triple-blind, randomized controlled trial, a high-standard study design
• Contains specific outcome measures including median VAS scores (33 mm vs. 37.5 mm) and p-values for statistical comparisons
• Available under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, facilitating reuse and analysis

Limitations

• The dataset's column structure is unknown, limiting immediate analysis
• The trial was terminated prematurely, which may affect the generalizability and power of the findings
• Row count is not explicitly provided, obscuring the dataset's granular scale

Provenance

Source

Single-center randomized controlled trial

Collection Method

Prospective clinical trial data collection

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-24

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