Comparison of Central Versus Peripheral Placement of Local Anesthetic

Hand Surgery Clinical Trial

Official title:

Selective Local Anesthetic Placement Using Ultrasound-guidance and Neurostimulation for the Infraclavicularbrachial Plexus Block

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00699244
• Other study ID #: 61267
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: June 12, 2008
• Last updated: June 9, 2017
• Start date: December 2006
• Est. completion date: March 2009

Study information

• Verified date: June 2017
• Source: Vanderbilt University Medical Center
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Does ultrasound increases the success rate and if there is a difference in success rate between placing the local anesthetic centrally versus peripherally.

Description:

A comparison of the infraclavicular placement of local anesthetic either centrally (posterior cord) vs peripheral placement (lateral or medial cord) using ultrasound guidance. This will be done to determine if ultrasound increases the success rate and if there is a difference in success rate between placing the local anesthetic centrally versus peripherally.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 218
• Est. completion date: March 2009
• Est. primary completion date: January 2009
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Class I-III.

• Patient is undergoing elective hand or forearm surgery.

• Patient is an adult, 18 years old or older.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Morbid obesity (calculated body mass index > 35 kg/m2).

• Patient unable to cooperate.

• Patient with a known brachial plexus injury.

• Medical contraindication to anesthetic technique (allergy, cardiac condition, neurologic condition, localized infection, bleeding disorder).

• Patients who are pregnant.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Elbow Surgery
• Forearm Surgery
• Hand Surgery
• Wrist Surgery

Intervention

Procedure:
• Peripheral placement of local anesthesia
Peripheral placement of local anesthesia
• Central placement of local anesthesia
Central placement of local anesthesia

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Vanderbilt University Orthopedic Surgicenter	Nashville	Tennessee

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Vanderbilt University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	increase success rate of the block to produce surgical anesthesia and analgesia		during and following surgical procedure

External Links

•   Vanderbilt University Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology