NCT03805958

Ultrasound-guided Combined Spinal-epidural Anesthesia: Pre-procedure Versus Real-time Scan

A Randomized Comparison of the Ultrasound-guided Combined Spinal-epidural Anesthesia Technique: Pre-procedure Scan Versus Real-time Scan

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 56 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Seoul National University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 19 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The investigators will compare the success rate, the consumed time, the number of needle passing, the depth and angle of the needle, the anesthetic effect, complications, pain and patient's satisfaction between 'Real-time scan' and 'Pre-procedure scan', when we performing spinal/epidural combined anesthesia.

Detailed description

Traditionally, spinal/epidural combined anesthesia has been performed by palpation of the landmark like Tuffier's line. There are some studies that using ultrasound improves the success rate to regional anesthesia. There are two methods of using ultrasonography, 'Real-time scan' and 'Pre-procedure scan'. Direct comparison of these two methods is not yet studied. So investigators will compare the success rate, the consumed time, the number of needle passing, the depth and angle of the needle, the anesthetic effect, complications, pain and patient's satisfaction.

Conditions

• Regional Anesthesia Morbidity
• Ultrasonography

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	realtime ultrasonography	Applying realtime ultrasound during the combined anesthesia
PROCEDURE	prescan ultrasonography	Applying realtime ultrasound before the combined anesthesia

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-11-15
• Primary completion: 2020-01-15
• Completion: 2020-01-15
• First posted: 2019-01-16
• Last updated: 2019-09-23