Ultrasound-guided Erector Spinae Plane Blocks

• Status: Enrolling by invitation
• Trial end date: 2022-09-15
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine the feasibility of using the ultrasound-guided erector spinae plane blocks to provide additional pain relief to patients with rib fractures in the Emergency Department (ED) and Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Mayo Clinic
• Treatments: Ropivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients 18 years old or older.

• Patients with one or more acute traumatic rib fractures.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Inability to position appropriately.

• Unconscious or heavily sedated.

• Patients who are critically ill such that care should not be delayed for regional anesthesia.

• Patients under the age of 18 years old.

• Vulnerable populations including prison inmates and pregnant patients.

• Overlying skin infection, wound, or dressing/equipment (i.e., Chest tube).

• Inability to visualize target anatomy or by ultrasound or anatomy prohibitive for other reasons to perform procedure successfully.

• Known or documented allergy to ropivacaine or other amide local anesthetic.