NCT06026150

Anatomical Variations of Femoral Nerve Location in Relation to Femoral Artery

Anatomical Variation of Femoral Nerve Location in Relation to Femoral Artery - An Ultrasonographic Evaluation

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 200 (actual)
• Sponsor: Rashid Hospital · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this observational study is to learn about the relative position of femoral nerve in relation to the femoral artery in patients scheduled for femoral fractures using ultrasound scanning. The classical description of femoral nerve is that it lies immediately near to artery, but it is not always true. The nerve lies at a varying distance from the artery. The main question it aims to answer are: • Is the age sex and Body Mass Index affect the relationship between femoral artery and nerve?

Detailed description

The femoral nerve block is ideal for surgeries of the femur, knee, or anterior thigh and is often combined with a sciatic nerve block for near complete lower extremity analgesia. The classic teaching is that the femoral nerve lies lateral to femoral artery sandwiched between the fascia iliaca and iliopsoas muscle1. Aim: The objective of the study is to find out the anatomical variation in the site of the femoral nerve in relation to the femoral artery, with respect to the age, sex, weight and ethnicity of the patient.

Conditions

• Femoral Fractures

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Ultrasound scanning of inguinal area for femoral nerve and artery	ultrasound scanning of inguinal region is done in femoral fracture patient to identify femoral artery and nerve

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-04-10
• Primary completion: 2020-11-30
• Completion: 2021-08-15
• First posted: 2023-09-06
• Last updated: 2023-09-06