NCT01445249

Medial Forefoot Block for Analgesia After Foot Surgery

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

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 72 (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 are used to provide pain relief after this work. The purpose of this study is to compare two techniques: one using anatomical landmarks alone to guide local anaesthetic infiltration, the other using peripheral nerve stimulation to guide local anaesthetic infiltration (termed medial forefoot block). The two techniques will be compared for reliability of postoperative analgesia.

Detailed description

More extensive description not desired.

Conditions

• Hallux Valgus

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Landmark guided ankle block.	25-30mls 0.5% levobupivacaine will be infiltrated to provide a landmark guided ankle block.
PROCEDURE	PNS guided block.	This group will have 25-30mls of 0.5% levobupivacaine infiltrated as directed by peripheral nerve stimulation.

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-03-01
• Primary completion: 2009-03-01
• Completion: 2009-03-01
• First posted: 2011-10-03
• Last updated: 2019-07-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom