NCT01978275

Stimulating Catheter for Lumbar Plexus

Are Stimulating Catheters More Efficacy for Lumbar Plexus Block Compared With Traditional Non-stimulating Ones? A Randomized, Prospective, Blinded, up and Down Study.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 58 (actual)
• Sponsor: ASST Gaetano Pini-CTO · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Stimulating catheters have been introduced to reduce the incidence of secondary failure after continuous peripheral nerve blocks, but they effectiveness over traditional nonstimulating catheters is still controversial. Furthermore no volume-response study has compared the success rates of the two techniques for continuous lumbar plexus block. The aim of this prospective, randomized, blinded study is to detect if stimulating catheters decrease the minimal effective volume (MEAV) of 1.5% mepivacaine required for successful lumbar plexus block (LPB) in 50% of patients compared with conventional non-stimulating catheters.

Conditions

• Knee Arthritis Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	stimulong 100, pajunk, germany	simulating catheter
DEVICE	plexolong 100, pajunk, germany	nonstimulating catheter

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-04-01
• Primary completion: 2013-12-01
• Completion: 2013-12-01
• First posted: 2013-11-07
• Last updated: 2014-02-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy