Regional Block for Postoperative Free Flap Care

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2023-01-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this protocol is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of regional anesthesia for head and neck patients undergoing microvascular free flap reconstruction.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Alabama at Birmingham
• Treatments: Ropivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion criteria:

• Age > 18

• Able to consent for themselves

• Undergoing a head and neck surgery at UAB with reconstruction using either a forearm free flap or a fibula free flap

Exclusion criteria:

• Age < 18

• Unable to consent for themselves

• Non-English speakers

• Non-resectable tumor

• Have a known opioid tolerance, or are on a home opioid regimen for a chronic condition. (Short-term opioid use for diagnostic procedures (i.e. biopsy) or new cancer diagnosis will be allowed).

• Patients with known hepatic failure, renal failure, or sulfa allergy, as determined by standard of care labs drawn within 30 days of enrollment