Comparison between effectiveness of injection of anesthetic agents to provide painfree surgery for your affected arm by two different methods - under ultrasound guidance, injecting drugs at the centre of the nerves of your arm and at 3 different places surrounding the nerves of your arm.
Phase 3
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: O- Medical and Surgical
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2021/05/033391
- Lead Sponsor
- nil
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
1.All adults of age more than 18 years posted for elbow, forearm and hand surgeries during the study period.
2. Surgery not expected to last more than 2 hours.
3. ASA (American Society of Anesthesiologists) physical status I/II patients.
4. Body mass index 20-35 kg/m2
Exclusion Criteria
1. Patient refusing brachial plexus block.
2. Known neuropathy/nerve injury involving the upper limb to be operated.
3.Known allergy to local anaesthetic drugs.
4.Abnormal neck and shoulder anatomy.
5.Infection at the injection site.
6.Pregnancy.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To compare the anaesthesia onset time in ultrasound guided single injection versus triple aliquots injection technique in costoclavicular block for upper limb surgeries. <br/ ><br>Timepoint: 2 years
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To compare single versus triple aliquot injection for ultrasound guided costoclavicular approach of infraclavicular brachial plexus block in terms of-1.Success of surgical anaesthesia. <br/ ><br>2.Need for repeat block /rescue analgesia/surgical site infiltration. <br/ ><br>3.Duration of post-operative analgesia. <br/ ><br>4.Rate of complications associated with both of the techniques. <br/ ><br>Timepoint: 2 years