Spinal Anesthesia Versus Combined Sciatic-femoral Nerve Block for Outpatient Knee Arthroscopy

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2015-05-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The aim of the study is to compare the time of home discharge in day-case patients receiving either a spinal anesthesia or a combined sciatic-femoral nerve block for knee arthroscopy

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: ASST Gaetano Pini-CTO
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Mepivacaine; Prilocaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• outpatients knee arthroscopy

Exclusion Criteria:

• diabetes

• allergy to local anesthetic

• patient refusal

• chronic opiods assumption