Regional Anesthesia for Head and Neck Reconstruction

• Status: Withdrawn
• Trial end date: 2021-03-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

By utilizing regional anesthesia blocks at the surgery tissue donor sites, it can potentially reduce post-operative pain while also reducing the use of opioids. It can aim to measure the reduction in opioid use, reduction in pain scores, patient satisfaction, and because there is not a current protocol established for regional anesthesia use for free flap reconstruction, and we aim to standardize the procedure.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Florida
• Treatments: Anesthetics

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Subjects undergoing microvascular fibula free flap reconstruction of the head and neck

• Subjects undergoing primary reconstruction for both benign and malignant etiology

Exclusion Criteria:

• Pregnant women

• Subjects with true allergies to the study drugs, reporting anaphylaxis in the past

• Subjects undergoing reconstruction with more than 1 free flap

• Subjects undergoing secondary reconstructions

• Subjects undergoing surgery for osteonecrosis

• History of enrollment in a pain management program

• Any subject currently enrolled in pain management, or currently taking long acting opioids such as methadone or oxycontin