Ultrasound Guided Distal Peripheral Nerve Blocks and Postoperative Pain.

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2014-04-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The aim of this clinical trial is to determinate if distal ultrasound guided peripheral nerve blocks on target nerves (radial and median nerve blocks at the elbow), using low volume and low concentration of long acting local anesthetic provide better postoperative pain control compare with systemic analgesia alone after thumb resection arthroplasty (TRA) due to a prolonged selective sensitive block on the tissue trauma.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Fundació Institut de Recerca de l'Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Anesthetics, Local; Bupivacaine; Levobupivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age more than 18 years.

• Ambulatory TRA.

• Free acceptance to participate in the study, with informed consent signed by patient, guardian or family member.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Age less than 18 years

• Pregnancy.

• Inability to provide informed consent.

• Allergy to amide local anesthetics/NSAIDs

• Preexisting chronic pain treated with opioids.

• Neuropathy involving the extremity undergoing surgery or neurological-cognitive deficits that may interfere in the assessement.

• Contraindications to dPNBs