Nerve Stimulator for Patients With Upper Extremity Disease, Vascular or Orthopedic Surgery

Stopped early · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Other Biomechanical Lesions of Upper Extremity

In brief

To help determine if there is improved pain relief when a device that makes an arm muscle move (nerve stimulator) is used to place a needle in the area above the collarbone to prevent feeling of pain (anesthesia) of the upper arm.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03112642

Run by

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

People needed

8

Starts

2013-11-01

Expected to finish

2021-03-09

Last updated by the study team

2024-03-05

Who can join

Age: 21 and older, up to 89. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Adult male and females 21 through 89
• Agree to study participation and signed the informed consent
• Scheduled for upper extremity surgery with ultrasound guided supraclavicular block -

You may not qualify if…

• Children
• Pregnant Women
• Persons with allergies to local anesthetics
• Persons with infections at or near site of needle insertion
• Patients with severe disturbance of cardiac rhythm and heart block
• Patients with severe respiratory compromise
• Patients requiring bilateral upper extremity anesthesia
• Patients with coagulopathy or medical anticoagulation
• Patients with traumatic nerve injury to neck or upper extremity
• Patients with preexisting neurological deficits in the distribution of the block
• Patients with previous surgery to the neck that may distort brachial plexus anatomy

Where it is running

• Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital — New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States

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