Out of Plane Approach for Interscalene

Stopped early · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Acute Pain, Brachial Plexus Block

In brief

Study aims to examine the influence of out of plane interscalene approach to a brachial plexus block on the effect of phrenic nerve blockade.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03785392

Run by

The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston

People needed

30

Starts

2019-03-29

Expected to finish

2019-12-08

Last updated by the study team

2020-12-03

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 85. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Adult patients(18-85 years old)
• Scheduled for elective shoulder surgery who would benefit from a preoperative interscalene approach to the brachial plexus block for intraoperative and postoperative pain relief.

You may not qualify if…

• Patients with any distorted anatomy for whom the block cannot be performed accurately, such as scars, surgical fixtures at the site, active infection, any open wound or drains at the site.
• Patients who request benzodiazepine anxiolytics such as midazolam for premedication before the procedure. Also patients who request narcotic medications as premedication before the procedure
• Non-English and Non-Spanish speaking patients
• Inadequate or failed blocks and inadvertently intrathecal or intravascular injection will be dropped from the study
• Incarcerated patients
• Expected heavy bleeding on multiple anticoagulants with markedly elevated PT ( Prothrombin time ), INR (International Normalized Ratio ), PTT ( Partial Thromboplastin Time ) levels and markedly reduced platelet counts

Where it is running

• UTMB — League City, Texas, United States
• UTMB — Galveston, Texas, United States

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