Continuous Femoral Nerve Blocks: Relative Effects of Basal Infusion and Bolus Doses on Sensory and Motor Function

Completed · Phase 4

Conditions studied: Nerve Block

In brief

This is a research study to determine if the way local anesthetic- or numbing medication- is delivered through a tiny tube next to the nerves that go to the thigh affects the strength and sensation in the thigh.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01144559

Run by

University of California, San Diego

People needed

15

Starts

2010-06-01

Expected to finish

2010-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2010-11-01

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• 18 years of age or older
• willing to have bilateral femoral perineural catheters place with a subsequent ropivacaine infusion and motor/sensory testing for 9 hours
• willing to stay overnight in the UCSD GCRC/CTRI to allow dissipation of local anesthetic infusion effects by the following morning.

You may not qualify if…

• current daily analgesic use
• opioid use with in the previous 4 weeks
• any neuro-muscular deficit of either femoral nerves and/or quadriceps muscles
• pregnancy
• incarceration

Where it is running

• UCSD Medical Center, Hillcrest — San Diego, California, United States

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