Regional Anaesthesia for Painful Injuries After Disasters

• Status: Withdrawn
• Trial end date: 2018-05-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The goal of the RAPID study is to fundamentally transform the way serious injuries are managed after earthquakes and other disasters by introducing a novel and cost-effective method for pain control. The study will enroll patients in the aftermath of a major earthquake to determine whether regional anesthesia, either with or without ultrasound-guidance, can reduce suffering from lower limb injuries, the most common earthquake-related injury, above and beyond the current standard of care for pain control in these settings.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Epicentre
• Collaborators: Brown University; Medecins Sans Frontieres, Netherlands
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Bupivacaine; Morphine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adult patients (18 years or older) presenting to an MSF field hospital with one or more lower limb injuries .

Exclusion Criteria:

• multi-system trauma

• severe respiratory distress

• hypotension

• altered mental status

• active infection at the sight of injection

• known current pregnancy

• unable to provide informed consent.

• known allergies to local anesthetic agents or narcotic pain medication

• receiving antithrombotic therapy or with a preexisting coagulopathy

• likely to receive regional anesthesia for alternative reasons within two hours of screening