NCT05794828

Erector Spinae Regional Anesthesia for Pain Control

Erector Spinae Regional Anesthesia for Pain Control in the Emergency Department

• Status: Completed
• Phase: EARLY_Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 15 (actual)
• Sponsor: The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Interventional study to use erector spinae plane block (ESPB) on diagnoses of posterior or lateral rib fractures, vertebral fractures, pancreatitis, pancreatic cancer, renal colic, and back pain for multimodal pain therapy to determine its assistance with pain relief as well as the patient's use of opiates after block completion

Detailed description

Patients with the listed diagnoses will be offered and then consented for an ESPB under ultrasound guidance. They will rate their pain before and 30 minutes after the procedure using the ordinal categorical data on a numeric pain scale. Total patient opiate use will be gathered up to 8 hours after block completion.

Conditions

• Pain Management

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Bupivacaine Injection	Bucivacaine will be administered intramuscularly according to package insert directions after first numbing the area with lidocaine subcutaneously

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-09-15
• Primary completion: 2025-02-18
• Completion: 2025-02-18
• First posted: 2023-04-03
• Last updated: 2025-08-27

Locations

4 sites across 1 country: United States

Regulatory

• FDA-regulated drug study