Comparison Between Two Different Volumes of Anesthesia Drug in Forearm Surgery

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2011-06-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Hospitalized patients for superior member surgery have different types of anesthesia.Forearm and/or arm surgery could be done under general anesthesia, but in the most of the cases, this surgery was done under locoregional anesthesia.Several injections of local anesthesia at the nerves axilla are used with the used of ultrasonography.

The purpose of this study is to show that the anesthesia efficiency is the same with 40 or 25 ml of Xylocaine 1.5% Adrenalin in Forearm or Arm Surgery.

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University Hospital, Brest
• Treatments: Lidocaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• age > 18 years old

• patient who must have a non emergency surgery of the forearm or the hand

• ASA I or ASA II

• informed consent

• Ensured patient

Exclusion Criteria:

• pregnancy

• respiratory insufficiency

• cardiac insufficiency

• hepatic insufficiency

• renal insufficiency

• ASA III or IV

• contraindications to the locoregional anesthesia

• contraindications to the xylocaine used

• patient participate to an another clinical study

• guardianship patient