Ultrasound Guidance for Epidural Analgesia and Anesthesia

Epidural Space Depth Clinical Trial

Official title:

Ultrasound Guidance for Epidural Analgesia and Anesthesia

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Terminated

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02436109
• Other study ID #: H14-01152
• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• First received: March 31, 2015
• Last updated: November 15, 2016
• Start date: October 2014
• Est. completion date: May 2016

Study information

• Verified date: November 2016
• Source: University of British Columbia
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Canada: Health Canada
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Most women delivering by cesarean at BC Women's receive regional anesthesia; which includes spinal, epidural, or combined spinal-epidural anesthesia. In all these techniques a needle is placed in the lower back and local anesthetic is injected to freeze the body. Normally, before the needle is placed in a patients' back, the anesthesiologist will feel between their back bones with his/her fingers to find the right spot for the needle. This study will be evaluating if the distance from the skin to the appropriate spinal space measured with a novel 3D Ultrasound will equal the actual depth of the needle insertion.

Description:

The investigators will be evaluating if the distance from the skin to the appropriate spinal space measured with a novel 3D Ultrasound will equal the actual depth of the needle insertion.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Terminated
• Enrollment: 10
• Est. completion date: May 2016
• Est. primary completion date: May 2016
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 19 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• term pregnancy

• elective cesarean

Exclusion Criteria:

• scoliosis

• high bmi

Study Design

Observational Model: Cohort, Time Perspective: Prospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Epidural Space Depth

Intervention

Device:
• Ultrasound
Parturients backs will be scanned using 3D ultrasound to measure the depth to the epidural space

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Canada	BC Women's Hospital	Vancouver	British Columbia

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of British Columbia

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Canada, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	epidural space depth	comparison of ultrasound measured epidural space to actual needle insertion	intraoperative	No