NCT02026050

Analgesic Effect of Intra-articular Dexamethasone and Dexamethasone Added to Bupivacaine in Interscalene Brachial Plexus

Phase 4 Study of Comparison of Postoperative Analgesic Effect of Intra-articular Dexamethasone and Dexamethasone Added to Bupivacaine in Interscalene Brachial Plexus Blockade for Arthroscopic Shoulder Surgery

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 75 (actual)
• Sponsor: TC Erciyes University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

the aim of this study was to investigate the analgesic efficacy of intra articular dexamethasone administration for arthroscopic shoulder surgery.

Detailed description

shoulder surgery can be very painful and interscalene brachial plexus block is the gold standard in the management of acute pain after shoulder surgery. various local anaesthetic mixtures can be used to prolong local anaesthesia duration and epinephrine , opioids and dexamethasone are frequently used for this purpose. dexamethasone has also been found the prolong the duration of lidocaine axillary blocks and intravenous regional anaesthesia. intraarticular administration of medicines can be used for management of joint pain and opioids , local anaesthetics and dexamethasone are used for this purpose.In addition, there are no studies available to compare the different treatment methods used in clinical practice directly.

Conditions

• Postoperative Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	intraarticular dexamethasone	2ml 8 mg dexamethasone administration for intraarticular
PROCEDURE	interscalene dexamethasone	2ml 8 mg dexamethasone administration interscalene brachial plexus added 30 ml 0.5 % bupivacaine
PROCEDURE	serum phsyologic	interscalene brachial plexus block was preoperative performed 30 ml 0.5 % bupivacaine+ 2ml serum phsyologic and after surgery 10 ml serum phsyologic administration for intraarticular

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-01-01
• Primary completion: 2015-01-01
• Completion: 2015-01-01
• First posted: 2014-01-01
• Last updated: 2015-03-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)