NCT01386320

Ultrasound Guided Ankle Block Versus Medial Forefoot Block for Forefoot Surgery

A Randomised, Blinded Comparison of an Ultrasound Guided Ankle Block Compared to a Nerve Stimulator Guided Ankle Block for Pain Relief After Forefoot Surgery.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Forefoot surgery includes bunion surgery and similar reconstructive bone cutting surgery and is very painful. Local anaesthetic nerve blocks have been used for many years to help alleviate pain following this surgery. The present study aims to compare a new ultrasound guided nerve block to a well established nerve stimulator guided technique. Comparisons will include time taken to carry out the block, speed of onset of numbness and duration and quality of pain relief after surgery.

Conditions

• Pain Relief After Forefoot Surgery

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Ultrasound guided ankle block	Under ultrasound guidance, block of the tibial nerve, superficial and deep branches of the common peroneal nerve and saphenous nerves will be carried out using 12 mls 0.5% levobupivacaine and 12 mls 0.75% levobupivacaine.
PROCEDURE	Medial forefoot block	Using peripheral nerve stimulator guidance, the tibial and common peroneal nerves will be blocked ( plus the saphenous nerve ), using a total of 12 mls 0.75% levobupivacaine and 12 mls 0.5% levobupivacaine.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-02-01
• Primary completion: 2014-10-01
• Completion: 2014-10-01
• First posted: 2011-07-01
• Last updated: 2019-07-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom