Femoral Blockade and Low-dose Spinal Anesthesia in Outpatient Knee Arthroscopy

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

Summary

The investigators of the current study aimed to evaluate the effect of spinal anesthesia with low dose bupivacaine combined with femoral blockade on duration of anesthesia and time of first analgesic requirement during postoperative period

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Ankara University
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Bupivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• ASA I-II patients aged between 25-65 undergoing arthroscopic meniscus repair

Exclusion Criteria:

• Contraindications to regional anesthesia (coagulopathy, severe aortic stenosis, sever mitral stenosis, increased intracranial pressure, severe hypovolemia, presence of infection on the site of injection)

• Presence of previous spinal surgery

• Presence of diabetes mellitus

• Presence of neurological disturbance

• Uncooperated patients, patients not accepting to participate the study

• Allergy to study drugs

• ASA II-IV patients, BMI >38, Height < 150 cm and >190 cm