Post-operative Exparel Study Following Rotator Cuff Repair

Status unconfirmed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Rotator Cuff Tears

In brief

The primary purpose of this study is to determine if the postoperative oral narcotics consumption in patients receiving liposomal bupivacaine (LB) interscalene brachial plexus nerve block (ISBPB) is different than the narcotics consumption receiving traditional bupivacaine ISBPB for arthroscopic rotator cuff repair analgesia.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04047745

Run by

Rothman Institute Orthopaedics

People needed

132

Starts

2019-09-01

Expected to finish

2021-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2019-08-07

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Males and females aged 18 years or older with a full-thickness rotator cuff tear (confirmed on MRI) undergoing arthroscopic rotator cuff repair surgery.
• Anesthesiologists physical status 1, 2, or 3 and normal preoperative motor (Lovett scale: biceps, wrist, thumb) and sensory function.

You may not qualify if…

• Revision shoulder surgery
• History of more than 1 prior surgery performed on the operative shoulder
• Concomitant severe glenohumeral arthritis
• Concomitant adhesive capsulitis
• Worker's compensation claim
• Pregnancy
• History of hypersensitivity or idiosyncratic reaction to amide-type local anesthetics
• History of renal or hepatic failure
• Chronic neuromuscular deficit affecting the surgical limb.
• Uncontrolled psychiatric or neurologic disorder

Where it is running

• Rothman Orthopaedics at Egg Harbor Township — Egg Harbor, New Jersey, United States

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