Evaluating Postoperative Non-Opioid Pain Management Utilizing Local Anesthetics Coupled With Modulated Coagulation

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2022-03-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This study is a prospective randomized trial examining the effect of topically combined antifibrinolytics (Tranexamic acid) with local anesthetics in all electively created surgical wound beds in hand surgery to provide long term pain relief and decrease the use of postoperative narcotics.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: NYU Langone Health
• Treatments: Aminocaproic Acid; Bupivacaine; Epinephrine; Epinephryl borate; Lidocaine; Racepinephrine; Thrombin; Tranexamic Acid

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age 18 or older

• Any patient undergoing elective hand surgery

Exclusion Criteria:

• Any patient with a traumatic open wound (only surgically created wounds will be included)

• History of chronic pain

• History of narcotic addiction

• History of recreational drug dependency

• History of psychiatric pathology

• Allergy to local anesthetics, recombinant human thrombin or tranexamic acid

• Any patient receiving a supra/infraclavicular block for anesthesia