Minimum Local Anesthetic Dose for Adductor Canal Block

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2014-08-05
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine the minimum dose of ropivacaine 0.5%, required to produce pain relief without weakening the leg muscles.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University Health Network, Toronto
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Anesthetics, Local; Ropivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• ASA(American Society of Anesthesiologists)physical status classification system I-III

• 18-85 years of age, inclusive

• BMI 18 - 40

• Scheduled for elective total knee replacement under spinal anesthesia or general anesthesia.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Inability or refusal to provide informed consent

• Any contraindication to regional anesthesia (allergy to local anesthetics, bleeding diathesis, coagulopathy, malignancy or infection at the site of block)