Injection Pressure & Adductor Canal Block

Stopped early · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Orthopedic Disorders, Injury of Anterior Cruciate Ligament

In brief

This is a prospective, randomized, single-blinded human clinical trial that will examine how injection pressure influences the spread of a given volume of injectate in the adductor canal, during adductor canal nerve block.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02563990

Run by

University of Miami

People needed

26

Starts

2015-12-03

Expected to finish

2016-12-09

Last updated by the study team

2020-01-13

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 65. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Planned general anesthetic.
• American Society of Anesthesia classes I, II, or III.
• Patients aged 18-65.
• English-speaking patients.

You may not qualify if…

• ASA classes IV and V.
• Patients younger than 18 or older than 65.
• Contraindication to regional anesthesia (coagulopathy, patient refusal).
• Allergy to local anesthetic or other study medications.
• BMI > 35 kg/m2.
• Chronic opioid use (daily or almost daily use for > 3 months).
• Active illicit drug use.
• Additional surgical site other than the limb for adductor canal block.
• Pregnancy.
• Preexisting neuropathy in the operative limb.
• Inability to communicate to investigators or hospital staff.
• Inability to speak or understand English.

Where it is running

• University of Miami Hospital — Miami, Florida, United States

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