Comparison Between Ultrasound-guided and Landmark-guided Ankle Blocks

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2014-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The investigators will be comparing ultrasound-guided (USG) ankle block and anatomic landmark-guided (ALG) ankle block to determine which of these procedures is better in surgical anesthesia and in postoperative pain relief.

• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Hillel Yaffe Medical Center
• Treatments: Bupivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients undergoing orthopedic foot operation with osteotomy

Exclusion Criteria:

• Skin infection near block injection site

• Allergy to local anesthetics

• Coagulopathy with INR >1.4.

• Dementia