Liposomal Bupivacaine Plus Bupivacaine Peripheral Nerve Blockade Versus Ropivacaine Plus Dexamethasone Peripheral Nerve Blockade for Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Repair

Completed · Phase 4

Conditions studied: Rotator Cuff Tears, Shoulder Pain

In brief

This study is a comparison of analgesia effect from peripheral nerve blockade (PNB) with liposomal bupivacaine combined with bupivacaine compared to PNB with ropivacaine combined with dexamethasone for arthroscopic rotator cuff repair.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04737980

Run by

Hospital for Special Surgery Florida

People needed

92

Starts

2019-07-18

Expected to finish

2020-03-18

Last updated by the study team

2021-02-08

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Full thickness tears of the Supraspinatus tendon
• Combined full thickness tears of the Supraspinatus and Infraspinatus tendon

You may not qualify if…

• Age < 18
• Revision surgery
• Chronic opioid use (>3 months prior to surgery)
• Allergy to local anesthetics or opioids
• Workers compensation or medical legal claim
• Pulmonary disease
• NSAID intolerance
• Neurologic deficit of operative upper extremity
• Concomitant full thickness subscapularis tear
• 2 tendon rotator cuff tear

Where it is running

• HSS Florida — West Palm Beach, Florida, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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