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

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2020-03-18
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

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.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Hospital for Special Surgery Florida
• Treatments: Bupivacaine; Dexamethasone; Ropivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Full thickness tears of the Supraspinatus tendon

• Combined full thickness tears of the Supraspinatus and Infraspinatus tendon

Exclusion Criteria:

• 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