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UnknownNCT02295709
Cervical Transforaminal Injection of Steroids Guided by Ultrasound
- Status
- Unknown
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 60 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years – 80 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
Cervical transforaminal epidural steroid injections (TFESI) are indicated in cervical radicular pain resistant to conservation therapy, by which steroids can be delivered into anterior epidural space surrounding target spinal nerve roots to help alleviate pain in the upper limb or neck. Cervical TFESI is traditionally commended to perform with guidance of fluoroscopy or CT. As fluoroscopy can not monitor the injection route whether it pass vessel or not, many serious neurological complications caused by inadvertent intra-arterial injection have been reported2. Here, the investigators will introduce a novel cervical TFESI guided by ultrasound, which incidence of inadvertent vessel injury or injection might be lower than those guided by fluoroscopy.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| PROCEDURE | SNR steroid (dexamethasone) injection | deliver steroids (dexamethasone) into spinal nerve root with the guidance of ultrasound. Device: Ultrasound (S-Nerve; SonoSite, Bothell, Wash), Probe 9L (6 MHz, SonoSite, Bothell, Wash) |
| PROCEDURE | CTF steroid (dexamethasone) injection | deliver steroids (dexamethasone) into spinal epidural space with the guidance of ultrasound. Device: Ultrasound (S-Nerve; SonoSite, Bothell, Wash), Probe 9L (6 MHz, SonoSite, Bothell, Wash) |
| DRUG | Dexamethasone | One of the most efficient steroids |
| DEVICE | Ultrasound | Ultrasound (S-Nerve; SonoSite, Bothell, Wash), Probe 9L (6 MHz, SonoSite, Bothell, Wash) |
| RADIATION | C arm | the needle position will be re-confirmed by C arm C arm (Philips Healthcare, Best, the Netherlands） |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2014-01-01
- Primary completion
- 2015-01-01
- Completion
- 2015-03-01
- First posted
- 2014-11-20
- Last updated
- 2014-11-21
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT02295709. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.