Ultrasound Guided Adductor Canal Versus Femoral Nerve Blocks for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction in Pediatrics

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2019-10-25
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Both Ultrasound guided Adductor Canal Block ( ACB) and Femoral Nerve Block (FNB) has been used to provide postoperative analgesia for knee surgeries. To the investigators' knowledge, no comparison has been made between those blocks in relation to postoperative quadriceps muscle strength, or duration and quality of postoperative analgesia for arthroscopic ACL reconstruction in pediatrics. If ACB provides postoperative analgesia after arthroscopic knee surgery comparable to FNB, it has the potential to improve the postoperative outcome as it will lead to less quadriceps muscle weakness and early mobilization, both of which are very important in the early postoperative period.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Akron Children's Hospital
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Anesthetics, Local; Methylprednisolone; Methylprednisolone acetate; Methylprednisolone Hemisuccinate; Pharmaceutical Solutions; Prednisolone; Prednisolone acetate; Prednisolone hemisuccinate; Prednisolone phosphate; Ropivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• ASA I or II

• Age 8 to 18 years

• All research subjects must have an acceptable legally authorized representative capable of giving consent on the subject's behalf.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Those who were unable to use a standard 0-10 NS

• Infection at the site of the block

• Bleeding disorders

• Allergy to the drugs used to perform the block ( ropivacaine , methylprednisolone)

• Those who refused a nerve block or enrollment in the study.