The Effect of Brachial Plexus Nerve Block on Distal Peripheral Nerve Conduction
Withdrawn before enrolling
Conditions studied: Anesthesia
In brief
The purpose of this study is to determine the conducting ability of distal extremity nerves after a supraclavicular brachial plexus nerve block (with local anesthetic) has been placed at a more proximal location in the upper extremity.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01716078
- Run by
- Defense and Veterans Center for Integrative Pain Management
- People needed
- 0
- Starts
- 2011-11-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2016-01-29
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Male and female military health care beneficiaries 18 years and older, capable of providing informed consent indicating awareness of the investigational nature of the study, in keeping with institutional policy
- Written informed consent must be obtained from each patient prior to entering the study
- Patients must be willing to have a regional anesthetic nerve block placed prior to their scheduled procedure
- Patients must be willing to have neurodiagnostic tests performed prior to placement and after placement of the regional anesthesia nerve block
You may not qualify if…
- Refusal to have a brachial plexus nerve block placed
- Refusal to have serial nerve conduction studies performed
- Contraindication for a regional anesthesia nerve block (allergy to local anesthetic, infection at site of injection, elevated coagulation time)
- Presence of conditions affecting the hand or arm (e.g., injury, infection) that might preclude the performance of nerve conduction studies
- Presence of known major abnormalities of nerve conduction, e.g., absent median sensory potential in a patient scheduled for carpal tunnel release
- Presence of conditions affecting the contralateral hand or arm (e.g., injury, infection) that might preclude the performance of sensory and motor studies to test block or absence of a contralateral upper extremity
Where it is running
- Fort Meade — Fort Meade, Maryland, United States
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