Ultrasound-guided Brachial Plexus Block With the Single-penetration Multiple-injection-technique for Upper Extremity Surgery
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Ropivacaine
- Conditions
- Fracture at Wrist and/or Hand Level
- Sponsor
- Jens Borglum Neimann
- Enrollment
- 120
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Blockade performance time (seconds)
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 10 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
Ultrasound-guided (USG) brachial plexus (BP) block efficacy at the Supraclavicular (SCL), Lateral- Infraclavicular (LIC) and Axillary (AX) level: Randomized, observer-blinded study of the single-penetration multiple-injection-technique.
Detailed Description
The investigators will compare the BP block efficacy (for surgical anaesthesia) with the USG single-penetration multiple-injection-technique at the SCL, LIC and AX level for upper-extremity surgery (elbow, forearm, wrist, hand). The investigators want to investigate whether the single-penetration multiple-injection-technique would provide for safe surgical anaesthesia with lower volumes of local anaesthetics than has previously been described in a comparative study at the three different levels. 120 patients will prospectively be randomized to an USG BP block administered as a single-penetration multiple-injection-technique at one of three different levels: (1) SCL (2) LIC (3) AX. Ropivacaine 0.75% (20 mL) will be used for all blocks prior to surgery.
Investigators
Jens Borglum Neimann
Associate professor
Bispebjerg Hospital
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Age above 18 years
- •American Society of Anaesthesiology class 1-3
- •Patients undergoing upper extremity surgery
Exclusion Criteria
- •Inability to cooperate
- •Inability to understand and talk danish
- •Allergic to ropivacaine
- •Infection at site of surgery
- •Neurological dysfunction at site of surgery
- •Severe coagulopathy
- •Drug and alcohol abuse
- •Patients, who can not get a nerve block due to technical difficulty
- •Pregnancy or nursing
- •Body mass index \>35
Arms & Interventions
USG Supraclavicular block
20 ml of ropivacaine 0,75% is administered to brachial plexus at supraclavicular level.
Intervention: Ropivacaine
Lateral infraclavicular block
20 ml of ropivacaine 0,75 % is administered to brachialis plexus at lateral infraclavicular level
Intervention: Ropivacaine
USG Axillaris block
20 ml of ropivacaine 0,75% is administered to plexus brachialis at axillaris level
Intervention: Ropivacaine
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Blockade performance time (seconds)
Time Frame: Time (seconds) from the time the ultrasound transducer is placed on the skin and until the needle is taken out of the body.
Secondary Outcomes
- Duration of time of block postoperatively (hours)(Patient reported the time off ending sensory and motory block)
- Onset time of blockade (minutes)(Time from block completion to complete sensory and motor block is accomplished.)
- Number of needle passes(Number of times the direction of the needle changes while performing the block)
- Patient reported pain related to needle passes (Scale 0-2)(Pain related to block performance reported by the patient right after block completion)