Music vs Midazolam During Preop Nerve Block Placement

Completed · Phase 3

Conditions studied: Anxiety, Peripheral Nerve Block

In brief

The purpose of this study is to determine if there are differences in anxiety scores, heart rate, blood pressure, and oxygen status when using sedation medication versus music while undergoing a peripheral nerve block before your surgery.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03069677

Run by

University of Pennsylvania

People needed

160

Starts

2017-04-12

Expected to finish

2018-05-11

Last updated by the study team

2019-09-10

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients who are >18 years of age, who will give informed consent in receiving a peripheral nerve block in the preoperative bay for their primary anesthetic and/or for their postoperative pain control.

You may not qualify if…

• significant psychiatric disorder such as generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, depression, psychosis, bipolar disorder; individuals who were incompetent to give informed consent; pregnant and/or breast feeding patients; any underlying coagulopathy, infection or other factors which would be a contraindication to receiving a peripheral nerve block; hypersensitivity to midazolam; and history of renal impairment. Patients who were extremely anxious (scores 50 and greater on the State Trait Anxiety Inventory-6 (STAI-6) tool) were also excluded from the study.

Where it is running

• University of Pennsylvania — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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