Adductor Canal Block Versus Femoral Block on Pain and Quadriceps Strength

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2022-03-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to compare the effects of a femoral nerve block vs. an adductor canal block on pain and quadriceps muscle strength for knee arthroscopy surgery.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of California, San Francisco
• Treatments: Ropivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• American Society of Anesthesia I-III classification,

• Scheduled for arthroscopic knee surgery (meniscal debridement/repair, ACL reconstruction)

Exclusion Criteria:

• Age younger than 18 years

• Non-English speaking

• Any contraindication for regional anesthesia, such as allergy to local anesthetics or opioids, -Coagulopaty or severe thrombocytopenia

• Infection at puncture sites

• Pre-existing neuropathy in operative limb

• Need for post-operative nerve function monitoring

• Dementia

• Patient refusal

• High pre-operative opioid requirements