NCT02384915

Spinal Anesthesia Versus Combined Sciatic-femoral Nerve Block for Outpatient Knee Arthroscopy

Spinale Unilaterale o Blocco Nervoso Periferico Per le Artroscopie di Ginocchio in Day Surgery. Confronto Prospettico Randomizzato

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (actual)
• Sponsor: ASST Gaetano Pini-CTO · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of the study is to compare the time of home discharge in day-case patients receiving either a spinal anesthesia or a combined sciatic-femoral nerve block for knee arthroscopy

Detailed description

Two groups: the first receive a spinal anesthesia injecting 2% hyperbaric prilocaine 40 mg with the patients in lateral decubitus and the surgical limb declive, the second a combined ultrasound-guided sciatic-femoral nerve block injecting 25 ml of 2% mepivacaine solution. Onset time, performance time, duration of the block, time of voiding, as well as the time of home discharge will be evaluated.

Conditions

• Knee Arthritis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	prilocaine
DRUG	mepivacaine
PROCEDURE	Sciatic-femoral Nerve Block	ultrasound-guided 25 ml 2% mepivacaine injection on both femoral and sciatic nerve
PROCEDURE	Spinal anesthesia	intrathecal injection of 40 mg hyperbaric prilocaine
DEVICE	Sonoplex, Pajunk

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-01-01
• Primary completion: 2015-05-01
• Completion: 2015-05-01
• First posted: 2015-03-10
• Last updated: 2015-05-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy