NCT03696199RecruitingPhase 4
A Prospective, Randomized Trial Evaluating Regional Anesthesia, Long-Acting Local Anesthesia, and Traditional Care for Pain Control of Operatively Treated Ankle Fractures
Conditions
Interventions
Drugs
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Phase 4
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sponsor
- Lahey Clinic
- Enrollment
- 70
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Oral Narcotics / Morphine Milligram Equivalents (MME) given
Study Overview
Brief Summary
This project is a multicenter, three armed, prospective randomized control trial studying the effectiveness of a long-acting local anesthetic "cocktail" in patients undergoing operative fixation of ankle fractures.
Detailed Description
This study is a multicenter, three armed, prospective randomized control trial studying the effect of a long-acting local anesthetic "cocktail" in patients undergoing operative fixation of ankle fractures.
Primary Hypothesis Driven Aims:
- Determine the effectiveness of a local anesthesia "cocktail" compared to regional block or standard of care in controlling pain in operatively treated ankle fractures. Nearly one out of ten fractures treated by both orthopaedic traumatologists and general orthopaedic surgeons taking call are ankle fractures. As such, effective pain control in this group of patients represents an opportunity to make a large impact, especially in the context of the current opioid epidemic. Improved pain control can help improve patient satisfaction, outcomes, decrease length of stay, cost of care, and complications associated with traditional narcotic use.
- Hypothesis 1A: Patients receiving the intraoperative cocktail will have improved post-operative pain control compared to those receiving a peri-operative nerve block or standard of care.
- Hypothesis 1B: Patients receiving the intraoperative cocktail or peri-operative nerve block will have improved post-operative pain control when compared to standard of care.
- Null Hypothesis 1: There will be no difference in post-operative pain control between all treatment arms.
- Determine the economic impact of cocktail and regional blocks in ankle fractures. A common concern with the use of regional blocks is the cost of the additional procedure, along with logistic delays which are associated with coordinating a separate procedure. This study would provide valuable data about the additional costs associated with regional blocks and with cocktail administration which could help aid in making economically conscious treatment decisions.
- Hypothesis 2: Local cocktail administration will have significantly lower costs than regional block, and not be significantly more expensive than standard of care.
- Null Hypothesis 2: There is no difference in cost between the modalities.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Treatment
- Masking
- Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to 89 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •Sustained a bimalleolar ankle fracture (OTA/AO type 44 A2, B2, C1, and C2 fracture) with surgery indicated and an approach with medial and lateral incisions planned Syndesmotic injuries will be included, due to the practical difficulty of reliably determining the presence of a syndesmotic injury preoperatively Trimalleolar ankle fractures where fixation of the posterior malleolus is not planned will also be included
- •Isolated Injury
Exclusion Criteria
- •Unifocal malleolar fractures
- •Bimalleolar fractures where fixation of only one malleolus is planned
- •Posterior malleolus fractures requiring fixation
- •Patients ineligible for a peripheral nerve block (e.g. concern for compartment syndrome)
- •Open injury
- •Patients treated with external fixation
- •Neurologic condition that would confound results (e.g. peripheral neuropathy)
- •Inability to consent
- •Chronic opioid use
- •History of opiate abuse
- •Polytrauma as defined as additional boney injury, visceral injury or moderate soft tissue injury (requiring suture repair or other invasive procedure)
- •Prisoners (unlikely to be accessible for follow-up)
- •Pregnant patients
- •Non-English-speaking subjects (post-operative data collection procedure involves conversations via phone calls. As we do not have access to translators for this research project, we will work exclusively with English-speaking subjects).
- •Subjects unable to take the standard post-operative pain regimen that consists of gabapentin, oxycodone, acetaminophen, and ibuprofen.
Arms & Interventions
Regional Anesthesia
Experimental
Single injection perioperative peripheral nerve block + followed by administration of oral narcotics on a need-based system
Intervention: Regional Anesthesia (Drug)
Long-Acting Local Anesthesia
Experimental
Subcutaneous local cocktail injection + followed by administration of oral narcotics on a need-based system
Intervention: Long-Acting Local Anesthesia (Drug)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Oral Narcotics / Morphine Milligram Equivalents (MME) given
Time Frame: 72 postoperative hours
The medical record (EPIC) will be used to determine the total morphine equivalents given to the patient post-surgery, including recovery unit administration of narcotics in the immediate post-operative period.
Secondary Outcomes
No secondary outcomes reported
Investigators
Eric Francis Swart
Principal Investigator
Lahey Clinic
Study Sites (1)
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