Effects of Catheter Tip Location Relative to the Femoral Nerve on Sensory and Motor Function

Completed · Phase 4

Conditions studied: Continuous Femoral Nerve Blocks in Healthy Volunteers

In brief

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

NCT01263249

Run by

University of California, San Diego

People needed

19

Starts

2010-01-01

Expected to finish

2011-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2011-06-14

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• 18 years of age or over
• Willing to have bilateral femoral perineural catheters placed with a subsequent ropivacaine infusion and motor/sensory testing for 6 hours, requiring an overnight stay 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 within the previous 4 weeks
• any neuro-muscular deficit of either femoral nerves and/or quadriceps muscles
• body mass index > 30 kg/m2
• pregnancy
• incarceration

Where it is running

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

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