Loss of Resistance, w/wo Stimulation, For Epidural Placement

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2017-10-11
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this randomized, observer-blinded, investigative trial is to determine if the use of electrical stimulation, compared to the traditional loss of resistance technique alone, improves the success rate of epidural catheter placement at an academic teaching institution.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Wake Forest University Health Sciences
• Treatments: Epinephrine; Epinephryl borate; Lidocaine; Pharmaceutical Solutions; Racepinephrine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adults undergoing intra-thoracic or intra-abdominal procedures that normally would receive thoracic epidurals for post-operative analgesia will be eligible.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Subjects with contraindications to regional anesthesia:

• history of allergy to amide local anesthetics

• presence of a progressive neurological deficit

• patients that are on anticoagulant medications that prohibit placement of an epidural

• Systemic infection

• Infection at the site of placement