Thoracic paravertebral block for perioperative lung preservation during VATS pulmonary surgery: study protocol of a randomized clinical trial.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThe Institutional Ethical Committee of Beijing Tongren Hospital (TREC2023-KY020) and The Institutional Ethical Committee of Beijing Chest Hospital ([2023] LS-KY-No.18) approved the study on March 16, 2023 and June 16, 2023. All participants will sign a written informed consent form and be informed of the right to withdraw from this study at any time. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare that they have no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests."

"Funding This study is supported by Beijing Hospitals Authority’s Ascent Plan (Code: DFL20220203) and Beijing Hospitals Authority Clinical Medicine Development of Special Funding Support (Code: ZYLX202103). The funding institution does not play any role in research design, data collection, statistical analysis, data interpretation, report writing, or article publication. Availability of data and materials The datasets analysed during the current study and statistical code are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request, as is the full protocol, and any data needed to support the protocol can be supplied upon request."

"Trial registration ClinicalTrials.govNCT05922449. Registered on June 25, 2023."