NCT03291691

Protective Nerve Stimulation in Regional Anesthesia

The Use of Protective Nerve Stimulation in Different Regional Anesthetic Blocks (Interscalene, Axillary, Femoral and Sciatic Nerve Blocks)

• Status: Suspended
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Charite University, Berlin, Germany · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Peripheral nerve blocks can be conducted with ultrasound, electrical nerve stimulation or landmark technique or a combination of this techniques. Whether a regional block should be conducted with a combination of those different possibilities is highly discussed. In this study the investigators want to show the effectiveness of new standard way of combined use of ultrasound and nerve stimulation, they call protective nerve stimulation. According to ethical vote we are conducting an observational study.

Detailed description

All patients will get the regional block they need for the elective surgery. Before starting the block a standard monitoring will be established. After applying the monitoring the block will be performed by an experienced anesthetist in supervision of another experienced anesthetist. The nerve stimulator is set on a fixed current of 1.0 mA and a block without motoric response on this current is tried. Ultrasound images are saved. After performing the regional anesthesia the further anesthetic procedure will be carried out and the surgery will take place. After surgery the patients will be transported to the recovery room or Postanesthesia care unit.

Conditions

• Anesthesia, Local
• Nerve Block
• Brachial Plexus Block

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-09-20
• Primary completion: 2023-12-31
• Completion: 2023-12-31
• First posted: 2017-09-25
• Last updated: 2022-02-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany