Suprasacral Parallel Shift - Ultrasound/MR Image Fusion Guided Lumbosacral Plexus Block

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2016-01-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The main objective of the trial is to complete a double-blinded randomized controlled trial with crossover design of a lumbosacral plexus block with the Suprasacral Parallel Shift technique guided by ultrasound/magnetic resonance (MR) image fusion vs. Suprasacral Parallel Shift guided by ultrasound by estimating sensory block of the femoral nerve, the obturator nerve, the lumbosacral trunk, and spinal nerve L1 in healthy volunteers.

• Phase: Phase 1
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Thomas F. Bendtsen
• Collaborators: Aarhus University Hospital; AP Moeller Foundation
• Treatments: Epinephrine; Epinephryl borate; Gadolinium 1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane-N,N',N'',N'''-tetraacetate; Lidocaine; Racepinephrine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age ≥ 18 years

• Volunteers who has given their written and oral informed consent to participate in the study after having fully understood the content and the limitations of the protocol.

• Normal healthy person (American Society of Anesthesiology [ASA] Classification I)

Exclusion Criteria:

• Volunteers not able to cooperate in the study

• Volunteers not able to understand or speak Danish

• Daily use of analgesics

• Allergy against the medicines used in the study

• Drug abuse (according to the investigator's judgement)

• Alcohol consumption greater than the recommendations of the Danish National Board of Health

• Contraindication for MRI including pregnancy

• Volunteer in whom nerve blocks are not possible due to technical reasons

• Volunteer who are incompetent (ie. surrogate consent is not accepted)