Regional Anesthesia in Pediatric Orthopaedic Patients

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Trial end date: 2021-08-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

To identify the benefits from regional anesthesia use as pain management in the pediatric population by delineating the differences in efficacy of continuous nerve blockade versus single-shot techniques after pediatric orthopaedic limb procedures. By doing this, the investigators can determine if specific anesthetic techniques should become a standard of care in pain management for the pediatric population and supersede the need for opioid medication.

• Phase: Phase 2/Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Ochsner Health System
• Treatments: Ropivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients undergoing primary orthopaedic limb surgery

• Outpatient orthopaedic surgeries

• Patients undergoing orthopaedic surgery who would normally receive regional anesthesia

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients younger than 5 years of ago or older than 18 years of age

• Revision orthopaedic surgeries

• Spinal orthopaedic surgeries

• Orthopaedic surgeries where the standard of care for type of regional anesthesia has been established (continuous regional for ACL reconstruction)

• Patients with the inability to articulate pain scores

• Inpatient orthopaedic surgeries

• Patients undergoing orthopaedic limb surgery with risk of compartment syndrome (i.e. acute supracondylar humerus fractures)