USFIB at the Inguinal Ligament for Total Hip Arthroplasty

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2017-08-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Hip replacement surgery is one of the most common elective surgeries in Canada and with this surgery, there is considerable pain after the operation. By decreasing the amount of pain after surgery, the patients may be able to move and walk quicker, resulting in easier physiotherapy sessions, shorter hospital stays and may help to avoid adverse outcomes like nausea and vomiting and being overly sedated. By using ultrasound guided femoral nerve block, it may be an alternative for pain management with minimal side effects for patients having hip replacement surgery.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: McMaster University
• Collaborator: St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton
• Treatments: Bupivacaine; Epinephrine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Patients 18 years or older undergoing unilateral hip arthroplasty.

2. Patient capable to complete informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Pediatric population.

2. Inability to complete informed consent.

3. Patient refusal.

4. Contraindication for regional anesthesia: coagulopathy, anticoagulant use, bleeding disorders, local or systemic infection, local anesthesia allergy.

5. Presence of neuromuscular deficit including diabetic peripheral neuropathy.