The Effect of Local Anesthetic Injection Depth on Procedural Pain and Discomfort During Fluoroscopically Guided Lumbar Transforaminal Epidural Injections

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2018-02-28
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Lumbar Transforaminal Epidural Injection is helpful for the treatment of lumbosacral radicular pain. But needle handling during the procedure may cause pain and discomfort to the patient. At the local skin anesthesia step, local anesthetics injection to the muscle layer along the needle pathway as well as the subcutaneous layer may reduce the procedural pain. In addition, it can reduce the injection site pain that may occur after the procedure.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Yonsei University
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Anesthetics, Local; Lidocaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and clinical manifestations of adult men and women over 20 years of age are eligible for radiculopathy due to back nerve root compression and subject to fluoroscopically guided lumbar transforaminal epidural Injection at the suspected spinal nerveroots level.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Blood clotting disorder

2. Infection around the site

3. Contrast agent allergy

4. Uncontrolled cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, kidney disease

5. Past history of spinal surgery (ex, spinal fusion)

6. If can not block due to Non-cooperation with subjects (ex, if you can not take the stomach)

7. Patients taking narcotic analgesics