NCT01973699

Visualization in Shoulder Arthroscopy With and Without Epinephrine

Surgeon Determined Visualization in Shoulder Arthroscopy: A Randomized, Blinded, Controlled Trial Comparing Irrigation Fluid With and Without Epinephrine

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 83 (actual)
• Sponsor: St. Luke's Hospital, Pennsylvania · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 100 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Adequate visualization during shoulder arthroscopy is of great importance for the procedure to be efficiently and effectively performed. The use of dilute epinephrine in irrigation fluid has been historically utilized to help with visualization. Given the potential safety issues documented in the literature related to epinephrine use, as well as the significant improvements in technique and instrumentation over the last decade, the need for this additive should be reexamined. The objective of the current study was to compare surgeon determined visualization in shoulder arthroscopy using irrigation fluid with and without epinephrine.

Conditions

• Visualization in Shoulder Arthroscopy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	visualization in shoulder arthroscopy	Evaluating the effect of performing shoulder arthroscopy with and without epinephrine on visualization

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-11-01
• Primary completion: 2013-04-01
• Completion: 2013-08-01
• First posted: 2013-10-31
• Last updated: 2016-01-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States