Ultrasound Guided Local Anesthetic Block: Thoracolumbar Interfascial Plane

Completed · Phase 1

Conditions studied: Healthy

In brief

The purpose of the study is to determine the effectiveness of a new approach to numbing (anesthetizing) nerves in the back and to measure how far the area of anesthesia extends on the skin of the back.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02297191

Run by

Medical University of South Carolina

People needed

10

Starts

2014-07-01

Expected to finish

2014-11-01

Last updated by the study team

2018-06-20

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Healthy Adult

You may not qualify if…

• Pregnant women (a urine pregnancy test will be done on all females of childbearing age)
• Liver dysfunction
• Elderly
• Impaired cardiovascular function
• Individuals on amiodarone or history of back surgery
• History of medical allergy to local amide type local anesthetics
• Medical allergy to chlorhexidine
• History of paresthesias
• Inability to lay flat
• Home oxygen requirement
• History of seizures
• Only adults will be eligible.

Where it is running

• Medical University of South Carolina — Charleston, South Carolina, United States

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