Post-Operative Quality of Life Evaluation for Different Anesthesia Techniques for Arthroscopic Shoulder Surgery

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2013-01-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Randomized controlled trial on efficacy of single injection or continuous interscalene brachial plexus block on analgesia in patients having outpatient rotator cuff surgery.

• Phase: Early Phase 1
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
• Collaborator: Baxter Healthcare Corporation
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Anesthetics, Local

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Patients who agree to participate in the study will be asked to sign the informed consent and the HIPAA form.

Inclusive criteria are:

• 18-75 years of age

• ASA physical status I-III

• BMI < 35 kg/m2

Exclusion Criteria:

• all open shoulder procedures

• patient having difficulty understanding the instruction on using the anesthetic infusion pump

• contraindications to administration of regional anesthesia (e.g., allergy to a local anesthetic, local infection and coagulopathy)

• significant neurologic disorders of the upper extremity

• psychiatric or cognitive disorders

• history of substance abuse or chronic opioid use