Use of Regional Anesthesia in Hip Arthroscopy

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2018-08-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this research is to determine differences in outcomes in patients who do, or do not, receive regional anesthesia (a fascia iliaca block) prior to undergoing hip arthroscopy with labral repair and/or debridement and osteoplasty for hip impingement

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Georgetown University
• Collaborators: Union Memorial Hospital; Washington Hospital Center
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Bupivacaine; Ropivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Scheduled for arthroscopic labral repair with or without osteoplasty of the hip.

• 18 to 50 years old

• American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status (ASA PS) score of I or II.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Current or planned pregnancy

• History of neuropathic pain, chronic pain syndrome, or preoperative use of narcotic or neuropathic pain medicine

• Radiographic signs of osteoarthritis (> Tonis grade 1)

• Inability to attend follow up visits

• Documented allergy to local anesthetic